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orchis
('/oU/rk/I/s )

noun (n)

  • any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes(noun.plant)
    source: wordnet30
  • one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens(noun.body)
    source: wordnet30
  • A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous.(noun)
    source: webster1913
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