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Orchidean   Listen
adjective
Orchidean  adj.  (Bot.) Orchidaceous.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Orchidean" Quotes from Famous Books



... which have not come into contact with the stigma; and that they may be seen advancing horizontally through the air towards the stigma. I have observed the emission of the tubes from the pollen-masses whilst still within the anthers, in three widely distinct Orchidean genera namely Aceras, Malaxis, and Neottia: see 'The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised' 2nd edition page 258.) It is, however, a wonderful sight to behold the tubes directing themselves in a straight line to the stigma, when this is at some little distance ...
— The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species • Charles Darwin



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