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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Column :: Column (n.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids..

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

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

Orchidean :: Orchidean (a.) Orchidaceous.

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

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

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