Crossword-Solution: ORCHIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Orchis | n. | A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous. |
| Orchis | n. | Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ORCHIS | anagram | CHOIRS, ICHORS, RICOHS, SCHIRO |
We have 9 clues for the answer “ORCHIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Genus of popular flowers. | 1 answer |
| Prom flower genus | 1 answer |
| Type of showy flower | 1 answer |
| wild orchid | 1 answer |
| Fringed flower | 2 answers |
| type of orchid | 5 answers |
| Orchid | 16 answers |
| RED-flowering plant | 21 answers |
| Fern | 33 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with ORCHIS (5)
The azaleas succeeded to the anemones, the orchis and trillium followed, then the yellow gerardias and the feathery purple pogonias, and finally the growing gleam of the golden-rods along the wood-side and the red umbels of the tall eupatoriums in the meadow announced the close of summer.
Purple vetches along the mounds, yellow lotus where the grass is shorter, and orchis succeeds to orchis.
There the lambs came bleating to her, and the orchis lifted up, and the thin dead leaves of clover lay for the new ones to spring through.
But a couple of active scythes are kept at work there summer and spring--not that the grass is long, for it is much overtopped by the bee-orchis, but because flowers are not to laugh within reach of the civic vigilance.
When we came to the end of the portage, a perfume like that of cyclamens in Tyrolean meadows welcomed us, and searching among the loose grasses by the water-side we found the exquisite purple spikes of the lesser fringed orchis, loveliest and most ethereal of all the woodland flowers save one.
Quotes with ORCHIS (2)
May 27, 1941Sunday we encountered specimens of the rarely appearing yellow lady's slipper. This orchis is fragilely beautiful. One tends to think of it almost as a phenomenon, without any roots or place in the natural world. And yet it, too, has had its tough old ancestors which have eluded fires and drought and freezes to pass on in this lovely form the boon of existence. If a plant so delicately lovely can at the same time be so toughly persistent and resistant to all natur…
A poor old Widow in her weeds Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds; Not too shallow, and not too deep, And down came April -- drip -- drip -- drip. Up shone May, like gold, and soon Green as an arbour grew leafy June. And now all summer she sits and sews Where willow herb, comfrey, bugloss blows, Teasle and pansy, meadowsweet, Campion, toadflax, and rough hawksbit; Brown bee orchis, and Peals of Bells; Clover, burnet, and thyme she smells; Like Oberon's meadows her garden …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, S&S, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1954–2007).