orchid

Word family adjectiveorchidaceousnounorchidistorchidologistorchidologyorchidomaniaorchidomaniacOrchisorchid

Related topics: Plants

or·chid /ˈɔːkɪd $ ˈɔːr-/ noun [countableC]

HBPa plant that has flowers which are brightly coloured and unusually shaped 兰花 →4 See picture of 见图 FLOWER 1 →5 see picture at 见图 flower1

Examples from the Corpus

orchid• There were salamanders and orchids of endangered varieties.• The Nashs have four hundred orchids ... but just sixty are considered ready for exhibiting.• The white casket was covered with a spray of irises, orchids and apricot-colored roses.• On the cliff top, marsh orchids, pink and lush, clustered in damp hollows.• With deliberation, I pulled up all my orchids and threw them, strewn with crumbs of earth, into the wheel-barrow.• This is a site of national importance for its variety of wold flowers, including many species of orchid.• Bill got the orchid bug from an old neighbour who encouraged him to to start breeding the plants.• She was drawn to the orchid display by the Three Rivers Orchid Society.

Origin orchid

(1800-1900) Modern Latin orchis, from Greek, “testicle, orchid”; because of the shape of its roots

词汇	orchid
释义	orchid Word family adjectiveorchidaceousnounorchidistorchidologistorchidologyorchidomaniaorchidomaniacOrchisorchid Related topics: Plants or·chid /ˈɔːkɪd $ ˈɔːr-/ noun [countableC] HBPa plant that has flowers which are brightly coloured and unusually shaped 兰花 →4 See picture of 见图 FLOWER 1 →5 see picture at 见图 flower1 Examples from the Corpus orchid• There were salamanders and orchids of endangered varieties.• The Nashs have four hundred orchids ... but just sixty are considered ready for exhibiting.• The white casket was covered with a spray of irises, orchids and apricot-colored roses.• On the cliff top, marsh orchids, pink and lush, clustered in damp hollows.• With deliberation, I pulled up all my orchids and threw them, strewn with crumbs of earth, into the wheel-barrow.• This is a site of national importance for its variety of wold flowers, including many species of orchid.• Bill got the orchid bug from an old neighbour who encouraged him to to start breeding the plants.• She was drawn to the orchid display by the Three Rivers Orchid Society. Origin orchid (1800-1900) Modern Latin orchis, from Greek, “testicle, orchid”; because of the shape of its roots
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