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Definition of Purple-fringed orchis

1. Noun. North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowers.

2. Noun. North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purple-fringed Orchis

puro purocoll puromycin puromycine puromycins puros purp purparties purparty purpie

purpies purple purple-fish purple-flowering raspberry purple-fringed orchid purple-fringed orchis (current term) purple-hooded orchis purple-staining Cortinarius purple-stemmed aster purple amaranth

purple anise purple apricot purple avens purple bacteria purple beech purple boneset purple chinese houses purple clematis purple clover purple coral

Literary usage of Purple-fringed orchis

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

1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"... and terminating in a raceme of many pale yellowish green flowers, the lip jagged or torn into a few capillary lobes. The small purple fringed orchis (P. ..."

2. Our Native Orchids: A Series of Drawings from Nature of All the Species by William Hamilton Gibson, Helena Dewey Leeming Jelliffe (1905)
"Twenty years ago Mr. Gibson made for " Highways and Byways" an illustration of the Smaller Purple Fringed Orchis tangled in a spider-web and receiving the ..."

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