单词 | orchis |
释义 | orchis (once / 14054 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY orchis: orchises USAGE EXAMPLESThe same can be said of salep, a fine powder ground from dried orchis tubers used in the Middle East to thicken ice cream. Newsweek(Jul 18, 2014) ÓRCHIS, L. Flower ringent; the sepals and petals nearly equal. Gray, Asa, The Manual of the Botany of the Nor...(2012) They were the fly orchis, and unusually perfect specimens. Boyd, Mary Stuart, The Fortunate Isles—Life and Travel...(2012) 1 n any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes 2Hypo|Hyper Orchis mascula, early purple orchid, male orchis Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike Orchis papilionaceae, butterfly orchid, butterfly orchisMediterranean orchid having usually purple flowers with a fan-shaped spotted or striped rose-red lip Orchis spectabilis, purple orchis, purple-hooded orchis, showy orchisNorth American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood orchid, orchidaceous plant any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors n one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens Hypo|Hyper cobblers a man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball) undescended testicle, undescended testisa testis that fails to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops gonad, sex gland a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced male reproductive glandthe reproductive organs of a man |
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