Definitions for orchid

orchid or·chid

Spelling: [awr-kid]
IPA: /ˈɔr kɪd/

Orchid is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in orchid (cdhior).

Definitions for orchid

noun

  1. any terrestrial or epiphytic plant of the family Orchidaceae, of temperate and tropical regions, having usually showy flowers. Compare orchid family.
  2. the flower of any of these plants.
  3. a bluish to reddish purple.

Origin of orchid

1835-45; New Latin Orchideae (later Orchidaceae) family name, equivalent to Latin orch(is) a plant (see orchis) + -ideae, irregular suffix (cf.

Examples for orchid

Who shall claim to know his orchid who knows not its insect sponsor?

She cannot rise any higher in a tree, so she rises in higher form in an orchid.

Daintily swinging, like clustered pearls, were the petals of the orchid.

How are we to know that this blossom which we plucked is an orchid?

On my kitchen windowsill (yes, I have a windowed kitchen, my first ever), are four orchid plants.

He would also carry out his dream by making the orchid a gift to Lady Coke.

The orchid had been a lesson to him against trusting any one with his secrets.

How high his hopes had been when he and the Dutchman had carried off the orchid!

Angræcum, orchid of Madagascar, with nectary eleven inches long, 219.

"I found it completely riveting," said Susan Orlean, author of The orchid Thief.

Word Value for orchid
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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