Definition of Cymbidia

1. cymbidium [n] - See also: cymbidium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cymbidia

cymbaleer
cymbaleers
cymbaler
cymbalers
cymbaling
cymbalist
cymbalists
cymbalo
cymbalom
cymbaloms
cymbalon
cymbalons
cymbalos
cymbals
cymbid
cymbidia (current term)
cymbidium
cymbidiums
cymbiform
cymbling
cymblings
cymbocephalic
cymbocephaly
cyme
cymene
cymenes
cymenol
cymenols
cymes
cymidine

Literary usage of Cymbidia

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

1. Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander von Humboldt (1860)
"... and of the gigantic species of Ficus, embellished by cymbidia and the fragrant Vanilla. The fresh green of the Dracontium, and the deeply serrated ..."

2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal by Robert Jameson, William Jardine, Henry Darwin Rogers (1826)
"... invest the bark of trees; beneath the tropics, on the contrary, the odorous vanilla, and the cymbidia, animate the trunk of the ..."

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