Crossword-Solution: ORCHIDS
We have 20 clues for the answer “ORCHIDS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Exotic flowers | 1 answer |
| Some corsage flowers | 1 answer |
| Nero Wolfe's passion | 1 answer |
| Nero Wolfe's obsession | 1 answer |
| Nero Wolfe's hobby | 1 answer |
| Nero Wolfe products | 1 answer |
| Lady's-slipper et al. | 1 answer |
| Lady's slippers, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Gift for a flowery 28th anniversary? | 1 answer |
| Fairy slipper and lady's-tresses | 1 answer |
| Exotic bouquet | 1 answer |
| Exotic blooms | 1 answer |
| Compliments from Winchell. | 1 answer |
| Cattleyas | 1 answer |
| Exotic blooms often prized by collectors | 1 answer |
| Praise: Colloq. | 3 answers |
| Corsage flowers | 3 answers |
| kudo | 3 answers |
| Prom wear | 6 answers |
| High praise | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ORCHIDS (5)
The soldier had left him, and he was still standing by his box, with the pots of orchids on the lid of it, and staring vaguely over the trees.
For hours absolute quiet reigned in the little clearing, except as it was broken by the discordant notes of brilliantly feathered parrots, or the screeching and twittering of the thousand jungle birds flitting ceaselessly amongst the vivid orchids and flamboyant blossoms which festooned the myriad, moss-covered branches of the forest kings.
They were mimosas, figs, hibisci, and palm trees, mingled together in profusion; and under the shelter of their verdant vault grew orchids, leguminous plants, and ferns.
The Judge's money brings architects to make his mansion fair; The Hales have seven gardeners to make their roses grow; The Judge can get his trees from Spain and France and everywhere, And raise his orchids under glass in the midst of all the snow.
She looked down the long table, studying its occupants one by one, from Gus Trenor, with his heavy carnivorous head sunk between his shoulders, as he preyed on a jellied plover, to his wife, at the opposite end of the long bank of orchids, suggestive, with her glaring good-looks, of a jeweller’s window lit by electricity.
Quotes with ORCHIDS (3)
Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.
And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, Their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids.
I’ve grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas that stock so many books. I particularly mourn the lack of female villains — good, potent female villains. Not ill-tempered women who scheme about landing good men and better shoes (as if we had nothing more interesting to war over), not chilly WASP mothers (emotionally distant isn’t necessarily evil), not soapy vixens (merely bitchy doesn’t qualify either). I’m talking violent, wic…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1948–2023).