A few years before, Robert Brown had called attention to the presence in the epidermal cells of orchids and other plants of a characteristic spot which he called the areola or nucleus.
The scent of roses and the heavier sweetness of orchids and tropical blooms drifted over the ancient city from its innumerable patios and public gardens.
It was with difficulty that Josè could restrain her when her sharp eyes caught the glint of brilliant Passion flowers and orchids of gorgeous hue clinging to the dripping trees.
Often when the boat hugged the bank he saw indescribable buds and blossoms, and multicolored orchids clinging to the drooping bejucos which festooned the enormous trees.
About her neck hung a string of pearls, and at her waist she wore the rare orchids which Ames had sent her that afternoon.
For particulars, I may refer him to the sixth chapter of my "History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.
That I might convey to my reader a just impression of the character of St. Augustine's philosophical writings, I have, in the two quotations here given, substituted for my own translation that of the Rev.
One of Darwin's own favourite examples of the action of natural selection, which he afterwards expanded largely in his work on Orchids and in several other volumes, is that which relates to the origin of conspicuous flowers.
Mr. Darwin has written a very interesting book on the fertilization of orchids by means of insects.
According to his view all insects are descended from one common type, and all orchids are also descended from one parent; but we meet with insects and orchids in pairs, each perfectly adapted to the other.
You pole and shove your boat between the floating islands, submerging orchids and cotton-grasses alike in the black peat water, and beyond them reach the parti-colored velvet of the peat bog itself.
At length the explorers reached the mossy corner where the orchids grew, and Cicely, securely balanced on a fallen tree-trunk, was allowed to dig the coveted roots.
In the woods you see many orchids growing like mistletoe on the trees.
When he was almost at the Caravanserai he wanted to go back and change the orchids for simpler flowers, roses or carnations, but he got himself not to.
He moved the vase of orchids nearer the center of the table, and the table nearer the open window giving on the green.
Flowers from various smitten youths arrived; orchids from Sprowl; nothing from Quarren.
During my first walk along this road I saw few insects or birds, but noticed some very handsome orchids in flower, of the genus Coelogyne, a group which I afterwards found to be very abundant, and characteristic of the district.
The interesting group of Orchids is very abundant, but, as is generally the case, nine-tenths of the species have small and inconspicuous flowers.
By the side of a little torrent that bordered the garden, quantities of orchids were cultivated, attached to the trunks of trees, or suspended from the branches, forming an interesting open air orchid-house.
She expanded in the light and the glow and the circumstance; she looked with warm pleasure at the orchids the men wore and the jewelled necks of the women.
A fringe of palms and ferns in pots ran between the pillars, and orchids hung from above, shutting out the garden, where heavy scents stood in the sun and mynas chattered on the drive.
When well grown, this plant has a noble appearance, and when closely viewed is seen to be a flower of a high order, as, in fact, all the Orchids are.
If the bloom can be cut clean, a good cluster will vie with many orchids for delicacy and effect.
As may be seen by the engraving, the flowers much resemble some of our native orchids in form, the lip being most characteristic.
We were a semi-scientific group, looking fororchids and caoutchouc and various other things which could be transported down the Amazon and turned into good dollars at any port on the Atlantic coast.
Orchids and many another parasite root themselves in the living stem, and make it gay, to its ultimate undoing, with blossoms not its own.
The Orchids have rounded or palmate tuberous roots, a few glossy leaves which sheath the stem, and simple spikes or racemes of flowers, the prevailing colours of which are red, pink, green and white.
Orchids are generally scented flowers, and produce nectar which is stored either in the cavity of the spur, or within the tissue of the same.
One of the most remarkable, and, at the same time, one of the most beautiful of Orchids is the Bee Orchis (Ophrys apifera).
There are a few summer-flowering species of Orchids that are more or less common in fields and pastures.
In orchids and aroids, in grasses and sedges, reduction plays a most important part, leaving its traces on the flowers as well as on the embryo of the seed.
Orchids include a large number of peloric monstrosities and moreover a wild pelory which is systematically described not only as a separate species but even as a new genus.
But then we find that labiates and their allies among the dicotyledonous plants, and orchids among the monocotyledonous ones are especially subjected to this alteration.
Overhanging roofs nearly touch above blooming orchidsand talking birds that scream across the narrow streets.
Of all orchids no genus we can just now call to mind is more distinct or is composed of species more widely divergent in size, form, structure, and color than is this one of Masdevallia.
He was sorry for the vegetables, the orchids and the pumpkins; and he was sorry for Miss Quincey, who was neither a pumpkin nor an orchid, but only a harmless little withered leaf.
She was occupied in placing the bunch of orchids in water when the music began.
Doris, in an exquisite frock of orchid tissue with a huge bunch of real pinky-lavender orchids trailing across one bare shoulder looked more like a fairy-tale princess than ever.
Susan put her wiltingorchids in water, and went dreamily through the next two or three days, recovering from the pleasure and excitement.
We'll stand by the dear fellow till the last orchid has withered--if they use orchids at June weddings, which I doubt.
But it certainly does sound to me like a play called "From Orchids to Dandelions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orchids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
