orchidaceous
/.ɒ:ki'deiʃәs/
📖 中文释义
- a. 兰科的, 兰花般的, 艳丽的
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order
- (Orchidaceae) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the
- type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils
- united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals,
- all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often
- resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being
- unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected
- appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but
- several thousand in the tropics.