preacher-in-the-pulpit
chiefly United States regional
noun
The showy orchis, Galearis spectabilis, having flowers in which the upper petals and sepals form a pink or purple hood above the white lip.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Meehan (1826–1901).
- structural isomerism
- structuralist
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- structurality
- structuralization
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- structuralizing
- structural linguistic
- structural linguistics
- structural load
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- structural-semantic
- structural semanticist
- structural semantics
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- structural word
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- structuration
- structure