orchid
- noun
- /ˈɔrkɪd/
- She received a beautiful orchid as a gift on her birthday, and it brightened up the whole room.
- orchid flowers
- grow orchids
- rare orchids
I'm telling you, folks, I'm growing orchids down there.
- I'm telling you, folks, I'm growing orchids down there.
- But people don't realize how fragile the orchid is, right?
- And so an orchid is going to thrive in certain sunlight, water and soil.
- And this is, if you squinted it correctly, the reason that an orchid flower and a Hummingbird collaborate, right?
- So success on the orchid pot bird feeder that we did.
- So luckily I've already seen fruit orchids, orchids of fruit, yes, for sure.
Examples
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They're orchids, Mrs. Schou, straight off the plane from Portugal, and they'll die if I leave them out here.
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I'm particularly interested in woodland orchids.
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"Oh, would you like to buy an orchid for the lady?"
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And so an orchid is going to thrive in certain sunlight, water and soil.
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There will be flowers, even a few white orchids for the occasion.
Fiction book (1996) -
The world's largest orchid grows several metres tall.
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I studied the literature and found out there are about 35,000 different orchid species.
Academic text (2010) -
I'm telling you, folks, I'm growing orchids down there.
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In 1993, the wholesale value of orchids in Hawaii alone was nearly $11 million.
Academic text (1994) -
The rare ghost orchid is famous for its striking beauty and unusual shape.
Synonyms
A plant with unusually shaped, colorful flowers often grown in pots
A plant that belongs to the orchid family
Compounds
- Specialized
A plant with long stems of many small fragrant white flowers that grows in wet bogs
An orchid with thick stems and white fragrant flowers that grows along the United States Pacific coast
A European wild flower with long spotted leaves and pink or white flowers with dark spots
A wild orchid with pink or purple flowers in a loose cluster that blooms in spring
An orchid that flowers in spring with pale outer petals and a large brown soft middle petal
A North American orchid with small delicate blooms that grows from Alaska to Baja California and east to Colorado
- UK
A small plant that grows in marshes with two low leaves and dull yellow green flowers
A type of orchid with many sweet-smelling pink, lilac, or red flowers on a tall stem
- Specialized
A wild orchid with funnel-shaped bright pink flowers that grows in the northeastern United States
A small southern European orchid with pale green and white flowers that smell sweet
A European orchid with large dark green flowers that have a faint smell
A delicate Asian orchid people grow for soft dark leaves with bright white or gold veins
A plant with male and female flowers on one stem that sends out pollen when touched
- Specialized
An orchid from North America with rosy purple flowers and finely toothed leaves
A North American orchid with clusters of purple fringed flowers that grows in wet meadows and marshes
An orchid from the eastern United States with greenish flowers and a deeply cut lip
A greenish wildflower that has a fringed, deeply cut lower petal and grows in the eastern United States
An orchid with many small white or brown flowers on a spiral spike like a rattlesnake tail
A small plant with large rose colored flowers that grows in South American forests
- Specialized
A North American orchid with two round leaves and greenish white flowers on one stalk
- Australian
Small Australian orchid with loose groups of scented white flowers marked purple and orange
A large family of flowering plants with bright, often unusual flowers found worldwide
A pale white plant with almost no leaves that gets food from fungi in shaded forests
A garden flower with delicate, multicolored petals that looks like a tropical flower
A wild flowering plant in North American wet prairies with small creamy scented flowers
- Specialized
A rare wildflower with white, fringed petals that grows in prairies
- South African
A plant with broad oval leaves and green, irregular flowers in southern Africa
- Australian
An orchid with tangled roots, thin wiry stems, and small fragrant green flowers
- Specialized
A wild flower like the fragrant orchid with smaller flowers, shorter stems, and very short spurs
- US
A small plant with white waxy flowers and few leaves that grows in western US mountains
- US
A thin wild flower with white, frilly blooms that grows in eastern North America
An orchid that grows along streams or ponds in western North America with leafy stems and greenish-brown and pinkish flowers
- US
A Mexican flowering plant that grows on trees with grey-green leaves and partly open yellow flowers
- US
A tropical water plant with floating leaves and large blue flowers that clogs rivers and lakes
A plant with pure white, fringed flowers that grows in wet meadows and bogs
- Australian
A small Australian orchid with pale yellow flowers marked with purple and a deep red lip
How Showy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Orchid comes from the Greek word orchis, meaning 'testicle', because the plant's underground roots looked like small testicles. That's why the name was used for the whole group of bright, often unusual flowers we now call orchids.