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Orchis

noun

Any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes.

One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens. Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, nut, testicle, testis.

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"Orchis" Quotes from Famous Books

... fantastic flower; the wing of a butterfly is not of a finer tissue, of a more brilliant purple, of a more glossy black: those unknown birds we see in our dreams, have no more grotesque forms than these specimens of the orchis—winged flowers, that seem always ready to fly from their frail and leafless stalks. The long, flexible stems of the cactus, which might be taken for reptiles, encircle also this trunk, and clothe it with their bunches of silvery white, shaded inside with bright ...

— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue

... shape; the lip-rings are small; the tattoo a mixture of Makoa and Waiyau. Fine blue and black beads are in fashion, and so are arm-coils of thick brass wire. Very nicely inlaid combs are worn in the hair; the inlaying is accomplished by means of a gum got from the root of an orchis called Nangazu. ...

— The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 • David Livingstone

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