orchids
Meaning of orchids
plural noun
a plant with complex flowers that are often showy or bizarrely shaped, having a large specialized lip (labellum) and frequently a spur. Orchids occur worldwide, especially as epiphytes in tropical forests, and are valuable hothouse plants.
mid 19th century: from modern Latin Orchid(ac)eae, formed irregularly from Latin orchis (see orchis).
Information about orchids
- It is a name.
- The singular form of orchids is: orchid.
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Hyphenation of orchids
or-chids
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- orchids is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of orchids
Words that rhyme with orchids
bruchids, cryptorchids, glochids, monorchids, aphids, didelphids, phosphids, sulphids, sylphids, syrphids, tyroglyphids, whids
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