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- Orchidaceous - a. - Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidaceae) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics.
- Pseudo-bulb - n. - An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants.
- Lady's slipper - - Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).
- Peristeria - n. - A genus of orchidaceous plants. See Dove plant.
- Cypripedium - n. - A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.
- Vanilla - n. - A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of tropical America.
- Caudicula - n. - A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.
- Oncidium - n. - A genus of tropical orchidaceous plants, the flower of one species of which (O. Papilio) resembles a butterfly.
- Puttyroot - n. - An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.
- Twayblade - n. - Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis.