Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of orchids, most of the species of which are epiphytic, growing on trees.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large and variable genus of terrestrial or epiphytic or lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Americas; some native to United States
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LicenseThis work is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. bryan i'm gonna sneak up to your house at night dresed in a ninja outfit of course and steal a bit of that orange epidendrum. does that name mean it'll be living in a tree? zcopley
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Far and wide, road upon road coiled and wound; while the green pines swept the eaves, the jady epidendrum encompassed the steps, the animals 'faces glistened like gold, and the dragons' heads shone resplendent in their variegated hues.
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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From the ever-green forests of Papantla and Nautla comes the _epidendrum vanilla_, whose odoriferous fruit is used as a perfume.
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"There's nothing so really pat," suggested the company smiling; "as 'the orchid-smell-laden breeze' and 'the dew-bedecked epidendrum!"
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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A small epidendrum, translated in this book as "spear-orchid."
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Indeed, the sweet-scented little epidendrum called by the Chinese, lan, is continually used to suggest the Kuei and its inmates.
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The epidendrum, the iris, the orchis and the chrysanthemum became special studies each of which had its own masters, both from the standpoint of painting itself, and of the application of the aesthetic rules which govern this art.
Chinese Painters A Critical Study Raphael Petrucci 1906
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You could never have approached within two hundred paces of a _Stanhopea_, of the _epidendrum odoratum_, of the _datura grandiflora_, with its mantle of snow-white blossoms?
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850
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"Every plant is a surprise," Kurt said smiling, after he photographed a blazingly pink epidendrum orchid.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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"Every plant is a surprise," Kurt said smiling, after he photographed a blazingly pink epidendrum orchid.
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