NOUN
- enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers
How To Use orchid family In A Sentence
- The coralroots are the only members of the orchid family native to Nova Scotia that are without chlorophyll and depend upon the decomposing remains of other plants for sustenance.
- Some are highly scented, which is quite rare in the orchid family. Times, Sunday Times