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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids having striking axillary racemes of yellow to green spiderlike flowers with long slender sepals and warty lips; the spider orchids.
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- noun genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids having striking axillary racemes of yellow to green spiderlike flowers with long slender sepals and warty lips: spider orchids
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Blooming for over a month and starting to lose its color is this brassia ‘Fritz Boedeker’.
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