orchid family
noun
the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
Words nearby orchid family
orchestrina,
orchestrion,
orchi-,
orchialgia,
orchid,
orchid family,
orchid tree,
orchid-,
orchidaceous,
orchidectomy,
orchidic