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Pseudo-bulb :: Pseudo-bulb (n.) An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants..

Fertilizer :: Fertilizer (n.) One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid..

Pollinium :: Pollinium (n.) A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids..

Orchidaceous :: Orchidaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidaceae) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred spec

Ladies'' Tresses :: Ladies' tresses () A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair..

Caudicula :: Caudicula (n.) A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached..

Lip :: Lip (n.) The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.

Retinaculum :: Retinaculum (n.) A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants..

Twayblade :: Twayblade (n.) Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis..

Orchideous :: Orchideous (a.) Same as Orchidaceous.

Labellum :: Labellum (n.) The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape..

Cypripedium :: Cypripedium (n.) A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.

Lady''s Slipper :: Lady's slipper () Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina)..

Bird''s-nest :: Bird's-nest (n.) An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (N. nidus-avis.).

Vanilla :: Vanilla (n.) A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of tropical America..

Satyrion :: Satyrion (n.) Any one of several kinds of orchids.

Orchidology :: Orchidology (n.) The branch of botany which treats of orchids.

Faham :: Faham (n.) The leaves of an orchid (Angraecum fragrans), of the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, used (in France) as a substitute for Chinese tea..

Orchidologist :: Orchidologist (n.) One versed in orchidology.

Oncidium :: Oncidium (n.) A genus of tropical orchidaceous plants, the flower of one species of which (O. Papilio) resembles a butterfly..

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