Definitions for Cattleya

Cattleya catt·ley·a

Spelling: [kat-lee-uh, kat-lee-uh, - Cattleya is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in Cattleya (aaceltty).

Definitions for Cattleya

noun

  1. any of several tropical American orchids of the genus Cattleya, having showy flowers ranging from white to purple.

Origin of Cattleya

1820-30; after William Cattley (died 1832), English botany enthusiast; see -a2

Examples for Cattleya

Duchartre describes an instance wherein one of the outer sepals of cattleya Forbesii was adherent to the labellum.

Along the roof hang small plants of cattleya gigas and others.

Like cattleya Schroderae it filled a gap when discovered in 1883, for there was no species at the time which flowered in July.

Here also is cattleya bicolor Measuresiana, an exquisite example of a species always charming to my taste.

cattleya Sanderiana was first discovered under circumstances rather odd.

Prillieux mentions a flower of cattleya amethystina wherein each whorl of the perianth consisted of two opposite segments.

Our cattleya House is 187 feet long, 24 feet wide; glass screens divide it into seven compartments.

To right in this house is cattleya Lawrenceana, of which we have probably 150 plants.

The cattleya was still there, perched aloft, as big as a hogshead.

This was cattleya Sanderiana—sometimes as much as eleven inches across; in colour, a tender rosy-mauve.

Word Value for Cattleya
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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