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Definitions of orchid in various dictionaries:
noun - any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
A member of the orchid family.
The flower of any of these plants, especially one cultivated for ornament.
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Popularly used for corsages, Cattleya is a variety of this flower |
On display in May is the spider type of this very popular ornamental flower, seen here |
Examples of this exotic flower include Snakemouth & Lady's Slipper |
Common viral diseases of this fancy flower include cymbidium mosaic & cattleya flower break |
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a plant with complex flowers that are often showy or bizarrely shaped, having a large specialized lip (labellum) and frequently a spur. Orchids occur worldwide, especially as epiphytes in tropical forests, and are valuable hothouse plants. |
any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors |
a plant with beautifully coloured flowers that have an unusual shape |
a plant with three-part flowers, or one of its flowers, which can be white or of several different colors |
A member of the orchid family. |
The flower of any of these plants, especially one cultivated for ornament. |
A pale to light purple, from grayish to purplish pink to strong reddish purple. |
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Orchid, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES |
Orchid, MISSOURI, UNITED STATES |
Orchid, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES |
Orchid description |
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The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family. * Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted species, distributed in about 763 genera. The determination of which family is larger is still under debate, because verified data on the members of such enormous families are continually in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species nearly equals the number of bony fishes and is more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species. * The family encompasses about 611% of all seed plants. The largest genera are Bulbophyllum (2,000 species), Epidendrum (1,500 species), Dendrobium (1,400 species) and Pleurothallis (1,000 species). It also includes Vanillathe genus of the vanilla plant, the type genus Orchis, and many commonly cultivated plants suc |