There is, likewise, a beautiful orchidaceous plant, which is very common throughout the patinas on the mountains, and which produces the very finest quality of arrowroot.
There are several beautiful varieties of orchidaceous plants upon the mountains; among others, several species of the dendrobium.
Then says Reason, if they occur in orchidaceous plants, why should they not also occur in corn plants?
The dark, damp wilderness is favorable to some of these orchidaceous plants, though they are too delicate for cultivation.
An aërial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants.
Nearly all our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of insects to remove their pollen-masses and thus to fertilise them.
A genus of tropical orchidaceous plants, the flower of one species of which (O.
An a\'89rial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants.
The lower or apparently anterior petal of anorchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.
A genus of climbingorchidaceous plants natives of tropical America.
A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.
A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.
The following details all refer to flowers in which the number of stamens in orchidaceousplants was increased beyond what is necessary.
Defn: A genus of tropical orchidaceous plants, the flower of one species of which (O.
Defn: An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer.
Rattlesnake plantain, an orchidaceous plant (Goodyera pubescens), with the leaves blotched and spotted with white.
Defn: An aërial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants.
Defn: The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.
Defn: Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper.
An orchidaceous plant (Gastrodia sesamoides) of Australia and Tasmania.
Defn: A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
Defn: A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants natives of tropical America.
Defn: Any one of several orchidaceousplants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis.
Also he suggests that the insect forms in orchidaceous flowers resemble those of the insects belonging to the native country of the plants.
The Vanilla planifolia, another Mexican native, famous for its succulent fruit, is a plant of the Orchidaceous order, which climbs about other trees in the manner of ivy.
Veitch's "Manual of Orchidaceous Plants" is a model of lucidity and a mine of information.
Monsieur St. Leger, nettled, sent some dried flowers for a testimony; but the mind of the Orchidaceous public was made up.
The vast majority of orchidaceous plants are, as already mentioned, dependent on insect agency, for fertilization, and present a marvellous variety of contrivances for effecting cross-fertilization through their activity.
Nothing, as is well known, is more marvellous than the variety and subtlety of the arrangements for the purpose which exist in orchidaceous plants, as explained by the patience and genius of Mr. Darwin.
Here and there the bright flowers of some orchidaceousplant ornamented their summits, or hung down from their boughs.
Here the number of orchidaceous plants greatly increased, hanging down from the boughs of nearly all the trees, clinging to them so closely that they often appeared to belong to the tree.
This is the case according to Fritz Muller with Eschscholtzia, for he found that the pollen-tubes did not penetrate the stigma deeply; and with the Orchidaceous genus Notylia they failed altogether to penetrate it.
Orchidaceous genera sterile in their native home, also Bignonia and Tabernaemontana echinata.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orchidaceous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
