Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The special branch of botany or of horticulture which relates to orchids.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The branch of botany which treats of orchids.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The study of
orchids .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The new orchid species - described recently in Lankesteriana, the international journal on orchidology - is named Ornithidium donaldeedodii, after orchidologist Donald Dod, who collected the specimen in the 1980s and served, in his later years, as a research associate for the UC Herbarium.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The new orchid species - described recently in Lankesteriana, the international journal on orchidology - is named Ornithidium donaldeedodii, after orchidologist Donald Dod, who collected the specimen in the 1980s and served, in his later years, as a research associate for the UC Herbarium.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The new orchid species - described recently in Lankesteriana, the international journal on orchidology - is named Ornithidium donaldeedodii, after orchidologist Donald Dod, who collected the specimen in the 1980s and served, in his later years, as a research associate for the UC Herbarium.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The new orchid species - described recently in Lankesteriana, the international journal on orchidology - is named Ornithidium donaldeedodii, after orchidologist Donald Dod, who collected the specimen in the 1980s and served, in his later years, as a research associate for the UC Herbarium.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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