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

droichs

Words that rhyme with orchids

bruchids, cryptorchids, glochids, monorchids, aphids, didelphids, phosphids, sulphids, sylphids, syrphids, tyroglyphids, whids

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