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Definition of Purple orchis
1. Noun. North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purple Orchis
Literary usage of Purple orchis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Great purple orchis. July-Aug. 13. POGONIA Juss. Gen. PI. 65. 1789. Mostly low
herbs, the flowers terminal, solitary, the leaves alternate. ..."
2. The History of the County of Dublin by John D'Alton (1838)
"... orchis bifolia, butterfly orchis, flowering in June ; orchis mascula, early
purple orchis ; carex curta, white sedge, flowering in June; carex recurva, ..."
3. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"... Aster radula Lilium Canadense, great and small purple orchis, Mimulus ringens,
blue flag, vir- gin's-bower, &c. The characteristic flowers in swamps ..."
4. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1894)
"... were: rue, Solidago lanceolata and squarrosa, Diplo- pappus umbellatus, Aster
radula Lilium Canadense, great and small purple orchis, Mimulus ringens, ..."
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