| 单词 | orchid |
| 释义 | orchid /örˈkid/nounAny plant or flower of the Orchidāˈceae or Orchidˈeae, a family of monocotyledons, including many tropical epiphytes, with highly specialized, often showy, flowers, the upper petal (or labellum; by twisting actually the lower) serving as a landing-place for insects, the one fertile stamen (or two) united with the gynaeceum as a column (qv), the pollen in masses ORIGIN: Gr orchis, -ios or -eōs a testicle (from the appearance of the root-tubers in Orchis and others); the d is a blunder, as if the genitive were orchidos orchidāˈceous or orchidˈeous adjective orˈchidist noun A fancier or grower of orchids orchidolˈogist noun orchidolˈogy noun Knowledge of orchids orchidomāˈnia noun A craze for orchids orchidomāˈniac noun Orˈchis noun
orˈchid-house noun A place for growing orchids |
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