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Orchidean :: Orchidean (a.) Orchidaceous.

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

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

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..

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

Orchis :: Orchis (n.) Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.

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

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..

Orchid :: Orchid (n.) Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.

Perula :: Perula (n.) A pouchlike portion of the perianth in certain orchides.

Peristeria :: Peristeria (n.) A genus of orchidaceous plants. See Dove plant.

Monkflower :: Monkflower (n.) A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.)..

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

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.

Orchis :: Orchis (n.) A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous..

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)..

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

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