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Webster 1913 Edition

Orchis

Or′chis

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p
rop.
Noun.
;
pl.
Orchises
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[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK] a testicle, the orchis; – so called from its tubers.]
1.
(Bot.)
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
.
2.
(Bot.)
Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.
☞ The common names, such as
bee orchis
,
fly orchis
,
butterfly orchis
, etc., allude to the peculiar form of the flower.

Webster 1828 Edition

Orchis

OR'CHIS

,
Noun.
[L. orchis; Gr.] A genus of plants, called fool-stones.

Definition 2024

Orchis

Orchis

See also: orchis

Translingual

Orchis pallens

Proper noun

Orchis f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Orchidaceae – the orchids.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

orchis

orchis

See also: Orchis

English

Wikispecies

Noun

orchis ‎(plural orchises)

  1. Any plant of the genus Orchis; an orchid
    • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91
      He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὄρχις ‎(órkhis, “testicle, ovary, orchid”).

Noun

orchis f ‎(genitive orchis); third declension

  1. orchid (flower)
  2. kind of olive

Declension

Third declension i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
nominative orchis orchēs
genitive orchis orchium
dative orchī orchibus
accusative orchem orchēs
ablative orche orchibus
vocative orchis orchēs

References

Etymology

Latin, from ὄρχις ‎(órkhis, “testicle, plant with tuber so shaped, in genus Orchis”)

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