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Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis.
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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.
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A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids.
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Same as Orchidaceous.
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A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of tropical America.
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The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.
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The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.
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Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.
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An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants.
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A genus of tropical orchidaceous plants, the flower of one species of which (O. Papilio) resembles a butterfly.
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An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.
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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.
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The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.
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The branch of botany which treats of orchids.
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Orchidaceous.
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Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.
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Any one of several kinds of orchids.
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One versed in orchidology.
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