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Definition of orchid in English: orchidnoun ˈɔːkɪdˈɔrkəd 1A plant with complex flowers that are often showy or bizarrely shaped, having a large specialized lip (labellum) and frequently a spur. Orchids occur worldwide, especially as epiphytes in tropical forests, and are valuable hothouse plants. Family Orchidaceae: numerous genera and species Example sentencesExamples - Where else can you grow bromeliads and orchids outside by simply hanging them in trees?
- The plants that he uses include ferns, bromeliads, orchids and palm trees.
- Meanwhile, a large number of plants, such as orchids and sandalwood, have been smuggled into domestic and overseas markets.
- This common, damaging pest likes to feed on the roots of Hawaii's colorful and exotic tropical orchids.
- To maintain the supply of orchids and tropical plants, the company has a tissue culture lab that can produce two to three million plants a year.
- Blooming plants such as orchids and kalanchoe need more light than palms.
- The venue is a hotel resort set in a lush tropical garden overflowing with orchids and other native flowers.
- The next phase will be completed by next July, which will then include up to 10,000 plant species from banana plants to rare orchids.
- Lady slippers and some kinds of cymbidium are terrestrial orchids.
- Flowering epiphytes - bromeliads, orchids and cacti - are presented most commonly.
- Only a few epiphyte ferns, orchids and bromeliads have been studied genetically.
- Certain plants such as orchids and some varieties of bromeliads will do best in mediums made especially for them.
- Sales of orchids and other tropical plants amount to a huge export industry.
- Bamboos, ferns, bromeliads, epiphytes and orchids will all thrive in this microclimate.
- Many tropical orchids are epiphytes, growing on the side of trees, and will not do well if their roots stay wet.
- Because orchids are primarily tropical epiphytes and small herbs, they do not have a fossil record.
- Butterflies and bogflies flutter above and around trefoils, daisies, clovers, sea-pinks and orchids.
- Use the shelf created by the window for an orchid or another tropical plant.
- There were white roses, pink roses, bright yellow sunflowers, lilies, daisies and orchids.
- Other flowers that work well include stephanotis, tulips and orchids.
- 1.1 The flowering stem of a cultivated orchid.
Example sentencesExamples - Anthuriums, orchids and lilies remain unspoilt for at least 10 to 15 days.
- The church people gave out corsages to the mothers, and of course the flower pinned to the leaf was an orchid.
Derivatives noun The prospective orchidist will want to have a general knowledge of the orchid family and a survey of the individual members with whom he may want later to become more closely acquainted.
nounɔːkɪˈdɒlədʒi John Lindley is known as the greatest orchidologist of the nineteenth century, a time when the interest in this huge group of plants was intense.
Origin Mid 19th century: from modern Latin Orchid(ac)eae, formed irregularly from Latin orchis (see orchis). Definition of orchid in US English: orchidnounˈɔrkədˈôrkəd 1A plant with complex flowers that are often showy or bizarrely shaped, having a large specialized lip (labellum) and frequently a spur. Orchids occur worldwide, especially as epiphytes in tropical forests, and are valuable hothouse plants. Family Orchidaceae: numerous genera and species Example sentencesExamples - Because orchids are primarily tropical epiphytes and small herbs, they do not have a fossil record.
- Lady slippers and some kinds of cymbidium are terrestrial orchids.
- Flowering epiphytes - bromeliads, orchids and cacti - are presented most commonly.
- To maintain the supply of orchids and tropical plants, the company has a tissue culture lab that can produce two to three million plants a year.
- Only a few epiphyte ferns, orchids and bromeliads have been studied genetically.
- Where else can you grow bromeliads and orchids outside by simply hanging them in trees?
- Use the shelf created by the window for an orchid or another tropical plant.
- This common, damaging pest likes to feed on the roots of Hawaii's colorful and exotic tropical orchids.
- Bamboos, ferns, bromeliads, epiphytes and orchids will all thrive in this microclimate.
- Blooming plants such as orchids and kalanchoe need more light than palms.
- Certain plants such as orchids and some varieties of bromeliads will do best in mediums made especially for them.
- There were white roses, pink roses, bright yellow sunflowers, lilies, daisies and orchids.
- Sales of orchids and other tropical plants amount to a huge export industry.
- The venue is a hotel resort set in a lush tropical garden overflowing with orchids and other native flowers.
- The next phase will be completed by next July, which will then include up to 10,000 plant species from banana plants to rare orchids.
- Meanwhile, a large number of plants, such as orchids and sandalwood, have been smuggled into domestic and overseas markets.
- Many tropical orchids are epiphytes, growing on the side of trees, and will not do well if their roots stay wet.
- Other flowers that work well include stephanotis, tulips and orchids.
- The plants that he uses include ferns, bromeliads, orchids and palm trees.
- Butterflies and bogflies flutter above and around trefoils, daisies, clovers, sea-pinks and orchids.
- 1.1 The flowering stem of a cultivated orchid.
Example sentencesExamples - The church people gave out corsages to the mothers, and of course the flower pinned to the leaf was an orchid.
- Anthuriums, orchids and lilies remain unspoilt for at least 10 to 15 days.
Origin Mid 19th century: from modern Latin Orchid(ac)eae, formed irregularly from Latin orchis (see orchis). |