Definition of Listera ovata

1. Noun. Orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia.

Exact synonyms: Twayblade
Generic synonyms: Orchid, Orchidaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Listera, Listera

Lexicographical Neighbors of Listera Ovata

Lissajous curves
Lissajous figure
Lissauer
Lissauer's bundle
Lissauer's column
Lissauer's fasciculus
Lissauer's marginal zone
Lissauer's tract
List 99
Lister's dressing
Lister's method
Lister's tubercle
Listera
Listera convallarioides
Listera cordata
Listera ovata
Listerella
Listeria denitrificans
Listeria grayi
Listeria monocytogenes
Listerian
Listerism
Listing's law
Listing's reduced eye
Liston
Liston's knives
Liston's shears
Liston's splint
Lisu
Liszt

Literary usage of Listera ovata

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects by Charles Darwin (1904)
"... perfect adaptation by which the pollen of a younger flower is carried to the stigma of an older flower on another plant—listera ovata; sensitiveness of ..."

2. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"fig. 84, c represents a section of the Epipactis, and D is a front view of the column. Of all the British Orchids, the listera ovata, or Twayblade (fig. ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1856)
"listera ovata.—The rostellum of listera ovata is divided by parallel septa into a series of longitudinal elongated loculi, which taper from the base upwards ..."

4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1856)
"listera ovata.—The rostellum of listera ovata is divided by parallel septa into a series of longitudinal elongated loculi, which taper from the base upwards ..."

5. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1854)
"n The author first gives au account of the form and structure of the rostellum of listera ovata, and its relation and position to the anther and stigma. ..."

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