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

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

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

Orchidean :: Orchidean (a.) Orchidaceous.

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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.)..

Pseudo-bulb :: Pseudo-bulb (n.) An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants..

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..

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

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

Orchideous :: Orchideous (a.) Same as Orchidaceous.

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..

Dove Plant :: Dove plant () A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant..

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

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