Definitionn. any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes
Last update: August 17, 2015
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Watson further brought out the striking fact that the west and east of Britain each had species peculiar to it; the former he characterized as Atlantic, the latter as Germanic. The Cornish heath (Erica vagans) and the maiden-hair fern (Adiantum CapillusVeneris) may serve as instances of the one, the man-orchis (Aceras anthropophora) and Reseda lutea of the other. [Please select]
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Again, amongst the orchis tribes, foreign specimens of which are often so valuable, we find very singular marks and shapes. [Please select]
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Then she lifted by the root exquisite showy orchis, lavender-hooded, white-lipped, the tiniest plants she could select and set them around the edge. [Please select]
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England has a man orchis and a lady orchis, but neither of them really suits the name, for their flowers have rather the appearance of a winged insect. [Please select]
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