How To Use Orchis In A Sentence

  • Exit orchis: A little action now would save our fast disappearing wildlife. Aldo Leopold (Complete Bibliography)
  • Aster thought of taking steamboat to go and see Orchis, but he was saved that expense by the unexpected arrival in Marietta of Orchis in person, suddenly called there by that strange kind of capriciousness lately characterizing him. The Confidence-Man
  • Bishop's Cap, Dutchman's breeches, and showy orchis. Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection
  • Of all the fragrant blossoms that haunt the woods, I know none so exquisite as that night-scented orchis which is called indifferently, the butterfly or the lily of the valley. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
  • O'er the muir, amang the heather," Eleanor's walk had gone; and her basket was gay with gorse and broom just opening; but from grassy banks on her way she had brought the bright blue speedwell; and clematis and bryony from the hedges, and from under them wild hyacinth and white campion and crane's-bill and primroses; and a meadow she had passed over gave her one or two pretty kinds of orchis, with daisies and cowslips, and grasses of various kinds. The Old Helmet
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  • —The testis, developed in the lumbar region, may be arrested or delayed in its transit to the scrotum (cryptorchism). XI. Splanchnology. 3c. The Male Genital Organs
  • Walking through the grass, and thinking of the dew and the beautiful morning sunshine, I scarcely noticed the quantity of cuckoo-flowers, or cardamine, till presently it occurred to me that it was very late in the season for cuckoo-flowers and stooping I picked one, and in the act saw it was an orchis -- the early purple. The Life of the Fields
  • A kind of orchis, and used, with its various appellations, "sensu obsc. Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • Not more surprised than alarmed, China Aster thought of taking steamboat to go and see Orchis, but he was saved that expense by the unexpected arrival in Marietta of Orchis in person, suddenly called there by that strange kind of capriciousness lately characterizing him. The Confidence-Man
  • He was a very unlovely man was Private Sim, especially when asleep, for at this time he opened his mouth very wide, and around it the busy flies were flitting, evidently taking it for the flower of some new kind of orchis or carnivorous plant, and they buzzed about and around it as if enjoying the fun of going as near as they could without quite getting into danger. Middy and Ensign
  • Flowers were scarce, and there were not many orchids, but I noticed the fine white butterfly-orchis, Phalaenopsis grandiflora, or a species closely allied to it. The Malay Archipelago
  • [Revision of "Exit orchis," Wildlife 2: 2 (Aug 1940), 17.] Aldo Leopold (Complete Bibliography)
  • Two examples of Malagasy endemics include the Madagascar serpent eagle (Eutriorchis astur) and the Madagascar red owl (Tyto soumagnei), which have recently been rediscovered in several areas across this zone, including the Masoala Peninsula and sites further south. Madagascar lowland forests
  • Clonorchis used to be transmitted through eating raw small cyprinids such as minnows and bitterlings.
  • The wet forests of eastern Madagascar have the highest number of threatened birds, including the Madagascar serpent-eagle (Eutriorchis astur, EN) and the Madagascar red owl (Tyto soumagnei, EN). Biological diversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
  • Though you may be choke-full of science, not one in twenty of you knows where to find the wood-sorrel, or bee-orchis, which grow in the next wood, or on the down three miles off, or what the bog-bean and wood-sage are good for. Tom Brown's Schooldays
  • By the roadside, close to the wheels, I noticed a splendid great purple-fringed orchis with a spike as big as an epilobium, which I would fain have stopped the stage to pluck, but as this had never been known to stop a bear, like the cur on the stage, the driver would probably have thought it a waste of time. The Maine Woods
  • He is like the showy orchis, or the lady's-slipper, or the shooting star among plants, -- a stranger to all but the few; and when an American poet says cuckoo, he must say it with such specifications as to leave no doubt what cuckoo he means, as Lowell does in his "Nightingale in the Study:" -- The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
  • The quaint pinkish-white flowers of the turtle-head showed in wet places, and instead of the lilac racemes of the purple-fringed orchis, which had disappeared with midsummer, we found now the slender braided spikes of the lady's-tresses, latest and lowliest of the orchids, pale and pure as nuns of the forest, and exhaling a celestial fragrance. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
  • Morren [454] describes some flowers of _Orchis morio_ in which there were three sepals, three petals, and within the latter two other ternary series of petals; this would seem to be a case of petalody of all six stamens. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • Soon after the May garlands the meadow orchis comes up, which is called 'dead men's hands,' and after that the 'ram's-horn' orchis, which has a twisted petal; and in the evening the bat, which they call flittermouse, appears again. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
  • Many instances of rudimentary development of the penis have been recorded, most of them complicated with cryptorchism or other abnormality of the sexual organs. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • This botanist observed and figured a flower of _Orchis palustris_ with tetramerous arrangement of parts, that is to say there were four outer segments to the perianth, four petals, of which two were lip-like, four stamens, three of which were rudimentary, and an ovary with four parietal placentæ. [ Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • The illusion was greater, as in this remarkable case gynecomastism was associated with cryptorchism -- that is to say, the testicles had kept to their original place in the visceral cavity, and had not travelled in the normal way down into the scrotum. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
  • He is like the showy orchis, or the lady's-slipper, or the shooting star among plants, -- a stranger to all but the few; and when an American poet says cuckoo, he must say it with such specifications as to leave no doubt what cuckoo he means, as Lowell does in his "Nightingale in the Study:" -- The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
  • Orchis-harlequins, cuckoo-plants, wild arums, more properly lords-and-ladies, were coming, and coming -- slowly; for had they not a long way to come, from the valley of the shadow of death into the land of life? David Elginbrod
  • A hexandrous flower of _Orchis militaris_ has been recorded by Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • In like manner one learns where to look for arbutus, for pipsissewa, for the early orchis; they have their particular haunts, and their surroundings are nearly always the same. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
  • The quaint pinkish-white flowers of the turtle-head showed in wet places, and instead of the lilac racemes of the purple-fringed orchis, which had disappeared with midsummer, we found now the slender braided spikes of the lady's-tresses, latest and lowliest of the orchids, pale and pure as nuns of the forest, and exhaling a celestial fragrance. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
  • The term orchis comes from the Greek, meaning testicle. October Bloom Day-New Friends And Old-Blog Action Day 2009 « Fairegarden
  • A starchy meal ground from the dried roots of various Old World orchids of the genera Orchis and Eulophia, used for food and formerly as medicine.
  • And what would you think of a wealth of gentians, large and small; great yellow arnicas; beautiful Martagon lilies; and St. - Bruno lilies; of every variety of daphne; of androsace, with its rose-coloured clusters; of the flame-coloured orchis; of saxifrage; of great, velvety campanulas; of pretty violet asters, wrapped in little, cravat-like tufting, to protect them from the cold? Samuel Brohl and Company
  • The handsome, large purple-fringed orchis is also found here. Rural Hours

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