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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024or•chid /ˈɔrkɪd/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Plant Biologya plant that grows in temperate and tropical regions, having usually showy flowers.
- Botanythe flower of this plant.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024or•chid (ôr′kid),USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologyany terrestrial or epiphytic plant of the family Orchidaceae, of temperate and tropical regions, having usually showy flowers. Cf. orchid family.
- Plant Biologythe flower of any of these plants.
- a bluish to reddish purple.
- Neo-Latin Orchideae (later Orchidaceae) family name, equivalent. to Latin orch(is) a plant (see orchis) + -ideae, irregularly suffix (compare -idae); see -id2
- 1835–45
- var. of orchido- before a vowel:orchidology.
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