1. North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood
   - showy orchis, purple-hooded orchis, Orchis spectabilis

Type of: orchis

Encyclopedia: Purple orchis

• cyanide group
• cyanide poisoning
• cyanide process
• cyanide radical
• cyanine
• cyanine dye
• cyanite
• cyano group
• cyano radical
• cyano-
• cyanobacteria
• cyanobacterial
• Cyanocitta
• Cyanocitta cristata
• cyanocobalamin
• cyanogen
• cyanogenetic
• cyanogenic
• cyanohydrin
• Cyanophyceae
• Cyanophyta
• cyanophyte
• cyanosed
• cyanosis
• cyanotic