Acronym meanings of ORCHIS. Acronym & meanings of ORCHIS

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.

Orchis

Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.

Resupinate

Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.

Salep

The dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia. It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water.

Standergrass

A plant (Orchis mascula); -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long.

Orchidaceous

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 species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics.

Testiculate

Having two tubers resembling testicles in form, as some species of orchis.

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