orchid

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Synonyms for orchid

noun blue and red colors mixed together

purple

noun. blue and red colors mixed together

Word Origin & History

1845, introduced by John Lindley in "School Botanty," from Modern Latin Orchideæ (Linnaeus), the plant's family name, from Latin orchis, a kind of orchid, from Greek orkhis (genitive orkheos) "orchid," literally "testicle," from PIE *orghi-, the standard root for "testicle" (cf. Avestan erezi "testicles," Armenian orjik, Middle Irish uirgge, Irish uirge "testicle," Lithuanian erzilas "stallion"). The plant so called because of the shape of its root. Earlier in English in Latin form, orchis (1560s), and in Middle English it was ballockwort (c.1300; see ballocks). Marred by extraneous -d- in an attempt to extract the Latin stem.

Example Sentences for orchid

Daintily swinging, like clustered pearls, were the petals of the orchid.

Who shall claim to know his orchid who knows not its insect sponsor?

Angræcum, orchid of Madagascar, with nectary eleven inches long, 219.

How are we to know that this blossom which we plucked is an orchid?

He would also carry out his dream by making the orchid a gift to Lady Coke.

How high his hopes had been when he and the Dutchman had carried off the orchid!

The orchid had been a lesson to him against trusting any one with his secrets.

She cannot rise any higher in an orchid, so she rises in higher form in a man.

She cannot rise any higher in a tree, so she rises in higher form in an orchid.

The parcel of orchid pods, which you have so kindly sent me, has followed me.

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