orchid
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I love every orchid equally,’ and he does,” his daughter said in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
Koja is concerned about the loss of unique indigenous trees like the giant orchid, already a problem before mining has even started.
From Barron's • Oct. 26, 2025
Being experts in orchid ecology and evolution, Suetsugu's team took on the challenge to find out who feeds the young orchids.
From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025
Its velvety, heart-shaped leaves shield a single burnt-mauve flower at the base, looking more like an orchid from the Florida swamps than something you’d expect to see near the river between Iowa and Illinois.
From Salon • May 27, 2025
It didn’t help when I pointed out that I had to wear a white carnation in my lapel and that wearing a purple orchid wasn’t nearly as bad.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
Vocabulary lists containing orchid
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