orchid
(ɔːʳkɪd )
Word forms: orchids
countable noun
Orchids are plants with brightly coloured, unusually shaped flowers.
She said she noticed that his house was full of orchids.
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Collocations:
rare orchid wild orchid
Literary spats are like a rare orchid - they should be nurtured with the utmost care.
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A staggering 400 species of birds and innumerable varieties of rare orchids exist in this small region.
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Biologists discovered three rare orchid species.
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But no one seems to know what has happened to the many rare orchids once housed there.
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In the end his salvation was found via a horticulture course that led to a lifetime of home garfield dening, with rare orchids a speciality.
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Flowers conjure anynumberof images, whether a meadow wilderness with wild orchid and scabious, adder's tongue and cowslip, or a perfectly manicured garden in year-round colour.
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The subsurface architecture of this terrestrial wild orchid consists of a rhizome structure, from which emanate tubers.
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The virus has not often been reported in wild orchid populations.
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Two orchid houses provide comparison between cultivated hybrids and wild orchid species.
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Amble through thick hanging yew woodlands and watch out for seasonal wild orchids and 40 species of butterfly.
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Translations:
Chinese: 兰花
Japanese: ラン
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