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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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Showy Orchis
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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