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Example sentences for: orchid

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A few examples follow: dipper duck for the pied-billed grebe; jakes for young male turkeys (their elders are toms); loopwood or witch hobble for the hobblebush ( Viburnum alnifolium ) because the stems bend over and grow roots at the tips creating a loop that can abruptly trip a hiker in snowy woods; pippin , not for the apple, but for the tangy, red berry of wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); pugger for ferret; quong-queedle for the bobolink; rain crow for the cuckoo, often heard before rain; scoke (or skoke ) for pokeweed ( Phytolacca americana ) of Massachusett Indian origin; skipper for a young deer; and finally an imaginative one, whippoorwill shoes for the lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) .
A short diversion eastwards will bring you to Blahbatuh, where the palace compound, Puri Blahbatuh, has turned into a commercial orchid nursery, sometimes referred to as Puri Anggrek (Orchid Palace).
Baiza `small copper coin of Oman,' for example, is the Arabic version of Hindi paisa . Datura `type of plant' and vanda `variety of orchid' reached English via New Latin; gavial `large crocodile,' from Hindi ghariyal ) via French; and mohar `silver coin of Nepal' via Nepalese.
Phalaenopsis amabilis , the lovable moth-resembling orchid, or Trichocentrum orthoplectron , the hairy-spurred cock's spur orchid (another binomial that tries to say it twice).
Orchid is from the Greek orchis `testicle.