Definition of Showy orchis

1. Noun. North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood.

Exact synonyms: Orchis Spectabilis, Purple Orchis, Purple-hooded Orchis
Generic synonyms: Orchis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Showy Orchis

showstopper
showstoppers
showstopping
showtime
showtimes
showup
showups
showwoman
showwomen
showy
showy daisy
showy goldenrod
showy lady's-slipper
showy lady slipper
showy milkweed
showy orchis (current term)
showy sunflower
showyard
showyards
showyness
shoyu
shoyus
shozoku
shpadoinkle
shpilkes
shraddha
shraddhas
shrag
shragger

Literary usage of Showy orchis

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

1. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"In this showy orchis the nectar often rises an eighth of an inch in the tube, and sufficient pressure to cause a rupture will eject it a foot. ..."

2. Ten New England Blossoms and Their Insect Visitors by Clarence Moores Weed (1895)
"VI THE showy orchis There is not a hair or a line, not a spot or a color, for which there ... From this point of view the showy orchis 1 is one of the most ..."

3. Our Native Orchids: A Series of Drawings from Nature of All the Species by William Hamilton Gibson, Helena Dewey Leeming Jelliffe (1905)
"19 X. showy orchis ......... 22 XL Small Round-leaved Orchis ...... 23 XII. Type of Habenaria Blossoms ...... 26 XIII. Large Round-leaved Orchis 27 XIV. ..."

4. Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1895)
"showy orchis. Orchis Gray says, is the only spectabilis. true orchis we haye It is a pretty flower, the upper part purplish pink, and the lower lip white ..."

5. Bog-trotting for Orchids by Grace Greylock Niles (1904)
"The showy orchis is due here about May 25th, the date on which the early Moccasin-Flowers awaken. Four species of this genus unfold upon almost the same day ..."

6. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1906)
"The round-leaved orchis (Habenaria Hookeriana) is among the first to bloom, coming just as the pink moccasin-flowers and the showy orchis have faded, ..."

7. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1906)
"... orchids of the bare and leafless woodlands is the showy orchis (Orchis ... coming just as the pink moccasin-flowers and the showy orchis have faded, ..."

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