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cattleya

NOUN
  1. any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a three-lobed lip enclosing the column; among the most popular and most extravagantly beautiful orchids known

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  • There are many popular types of orchid, including cattleyas, dendrobiums, oncidiums and vandas.
  • This is an enormous yellow cattleya that is truly enormous. 05/13/2005
  • In trying to delete the spacing in the edit, I deleted the cattleya picture and am giving up on trying to fix this particular post. Garden Bloggers Bloom Day December 15, 2007 « Fairegarden
  • Vexillaria and the glorious pink and scarlet blossoms of Cattleya and odontoglossum. The Lost World
  • At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and cattleya orchids. The White House's new florist in chief is boldly creating blooms with a view
  • Species of special concern for this ecoregion are the Colombian ebony and the mahogany, among the precious timber; the Cattleya aurea, as this beautiful orchid has suffered from over-collection for more than seventy years; the two species of tapirs present are highly endangered both at the national and international level; the harpy eagle and the blue-billed curassow are also endangered species than still present in the upper Sinú. Sinú Valley dry forests
  • S. cattleya is apparently capable of generating fluoroacetaldehyde in vivo from metabolic intermediates, presumably by reacting them with inorganic fluoride.
  • Besides that moment (that first evening on which they had “done a cattleya”) when she had told him that she was coming from the Swann's Way
  • This cattleya ‘Scheherazade’ blooms at this time each year. Randomness « Fairegarden
  • A native of the tropic Americas, the cattleyas are a pseudobulb type and considered an orchid with training wheels.
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