Definitions for Laelia

Laelia lae·li·a

Spelling: [lee-lee-uh]
IPA: /ˈli li ə/

Laelia is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in Laelia (aaeill).

Definitions for Laelia

noun

  1. any of several epiphytic tropical American orchids of the genus Laelia, having fleshy leaves and showy flowers.

Origin of Laelia

New Latin (1763), perhaps after Caius Laelius, Roman statesman of the 2nd century b.c.; see -a2

Examples for Laelia

The compartment we enter first is devoted to laelia elegans mostly.

In front and on one side are banks of tufa planted with Masdevallias, Lycastes, laelia harpophylla, and so forth.

And there, a short distance to the north, lives laelia pumila, which might supply the rosy tinge.

Countless are the species of Dendrobium, many those of laelia; but in each case no other shows this peculiarity.

Here and there in this house, as room can be made, stand many fine plants of laelia elegans.

Overhead is a long row of laelia Jongheana—some three hundred of them here and elsewhere.

Robin Measures is assumed to be a natural hybrid of laelia xanthina × Catt.

The ordinary form of citrosmum also demands no comment, and I deal with the interesting laelia Jongheana elsewhere.

Mr. Rolfe has satisfied himself that the strain of laelia purpurata is always present.

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