Example sentences for: orchid

How can you use “orchid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Just a short walk down the hill is the Jardim Orquídea (Pregetter’s Orchid Garden).

  • 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).

  • the Saloon or the Orchid Tavern is pleas'd to Present, the fam'd Leyden-Jar Danse Macabre!

  • 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 relatively new project in orchid breeding, it has some 50,000 plants and more than 4,000 varieties of delicate orchids.


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