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Definition of Bee orchid
1. Noun. European orchid whose flowers resemble bumble bees in shape and color.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bee Orchid
Literary usage of Bee orchid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Garden, Its Plan and Culture Together with a General Description of Its by Alfred Smee (1872)
"bee orchid FIG. 611.—Fly Orchid. ... with the curious bee orchid. FIG. 612.— Man
Orchid. FIG. 613. ..."
2. On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart (1871)
"... while, with regard to the bee orchid, he says, " I have never seen an insect
visit these flowers." And he shows how this species is even wonderfully and ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"In 1833 Robert Brown conjectured that the remarkable insect- like forms of the
flowers of the genus Ophrys (bee orchid, etc.) " are intended to deter, ..."
4. Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society (1882)
"A pretty little orchid, somew)iat like the bee orchid, grows wild on the hills
here; it is not mentioned in time native Ichang Gazetteer. ..."
5. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"... external semblance of a seaweed than there would be for supposing a bee-orchid
to be allied to the animal kingdom because of the form of its flowers. ..."
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