green man orchisn.
/ˌɡriːn ˈman ɔːkɪs/, U.S. /ˌɡrin ˈmæn ˌɔrkəs/ Now rare.
= man orchid n. Cf. green man n. 3.
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satyrionOE
bollockwort?a1300
sanicle14..
bollock?a1425
martagon1548
orchis1559
dogstones1562
hare's-ballocks1562
stone1562
bollock grass1578
dog's cods1578
dog's cullions1578
double-leaf1578
fly-orchis1578
goat's cullions1578
goat's orchis1578
priest's pintle1578
twayblade1578
bee-orchis1597
bifoil1597
bird's nest1597
bird's orchis1597
butterfly orchis1597
fenny-stones1597
gelded satyrion1597
gnat satyrion1597
humble-bee orchis1597
lady's slipper1597
sweet ballocks1597
two-blade1605
cullions1611
bee-flower1626
fly-flower1640
man orchis1670
musk orchis1670
moccasin flower1680
gnat-flower1688
faham tea1728
Ophrys1754
green man orchis1762
Arethusa1764
honey flower1771
cypripedium1775
rattlesnake plantain1778
Venus's slipper1785
Adam and Eve1789
lizard orchis179.
epidendrum1791
Pogonia?1801
Vanda1801
cymbidium1815
Oncidium1822
putty-root1822
Noah's Ark1826
yellow moccasin1826
gongora1827
cattleya1828
green man1828
nervine1828
stanhopea1829
dove-flower1831
catasetum1836
Odontoglossum1836
Miltonia1837
letter plant1838
spread eagle1838
letter-leaf1839
swan-plant1841
orchid1843
disa1844
masdevallia1845
Phalaenopsis1846
faham1850
Indian crocus1850
moccasin plant1850
pleione1851
dove orchis1852
nerve root1854
Holy Ghost flower1862
basket-plant1865
lizard's tongue1866
mousetail1866
Sobralia1866
swan-neck1866
swanwort1866
Indian shoe1876
odontoglot1879
wreathewort1879
moth orchid1880
rattlesnake orchid1881
dendrobe1882
dove-plant1882
Madeira orchis1882
man orchis1882
swan-flower1884
slipper-orchid1885
slipper orchis1889
mayflower1894
scorpion orchid1897
moederkappie1910
dove orchid1918
monkey orchid1925
man orchid1927
1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 340 Green Man Orchis.
1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. II. 549 Orchis Anthropophora... Green Man Orchis. Chalky and gravelly soils.
1784 J. Cullum Hist. & Antiq. Hawsted in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 23. i. 4 Green Man-orchis (Ophrys Anthropophora) on dry grassy banks.
1829 J. Lindley Synopsis Brit. Flora 262 A. anthropophora R. Br. Green man-orchis.
1889 C. Peters Girl's Own Outdoor Bk. 365 One is called the ‘green man orchis’, and is supposed to represent a little green man with his head hidden in a flower.
1907 Country-side 29 June 116/2 ‘The man orchis’, or ‘green man orchis’—Aceras anthropophora—with yellowish-green flowers, which sometimes have margins of red.
1929 E. Step Wayside & Woodland Blossoms 3rd ser. III. 108 Green-Man Orchis (Aceras anthropophora).
1940 Papers & Proc. Hampshire Field Club & Archaeol. Soc. 14 89 On the roadside up the hill and in the pastures nearby, many were delighted at the large numbers of the Green Man Orchis.
1988 Marshall Cavendish Encycl. Plants & Earth Sci. I. 9/1 Aceras a genus represented by only one species. A. anthropophorum [Man Orchid, Green Man Orchis], occurring in Europe, North Africa and Cyprus. Its common name is a reference to the shape of the flower, which is considered to simulate the shape of a man's body.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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