Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A greenish-flowered orchid, Aceras anthropophora, natural order Orchideæ, which grows in meadows and pastures in the eastern part of England.

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  • A rare poplar, _Populus canescens_, grows by the Wilstone reservoir, and the man-orchis (_Aceras anthropophora_) on terraces cut in the Chalk near Tring.

    Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901

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