orchis

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Pronunciation

/ˈɔː.kɪs/ (UK)

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/ˈɔː.kɪs/ (UK) · /ˈɔɹ.kɪs/ (US)

Definition of orchis

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

An orchid; now specifically, a plant of the genus Orchis.

“[T]heir maid has dreſſed their hats with cowſlips, orchiſſes, cuckoo-flowers, and golden-cups—[…]”
“In spring, what a place it was for wild flowers!―as Lucy Raymond and her brothers well knew, having often brought home thence great bunches of dielytras and convallarias and orchises; and at any time some bright blossoms were generally to be found gleaming through the shade.”
“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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noun

An orchid; now specifically, a plant of the genus Orchis.

“[T]heir maid has dreſſed their hats with cowſlips, orchiſſes, cuckoo-flowers, and golden-cups—[…]”
“In spring, what a place it was for wild flowers!―as Lucy Raymond and her brothers well knew, having often brought home thence great bunches of dielytras and convallarias and orchises; and at any time some bright blossoms were generally to be found gleaming through the shade.”
“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.”
A testis.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Borrowed from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle”).

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