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bird's-nest orchids

bird's-nest orchids is the plural of bird's-nest orchid.

Meaning of bird's-nest orchid

Noun

bird's-nest orchid (plural bird's-nest orchids)

  1. A species of orchid, Neottia nidus-avis, native to Europe and Russia.
    • James learned to chew the wood sorrel for its acid flavour, to watch for its flowers closing on approach of rain, and found where the rare bird's-nest orchid grew.1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 13

Questions about bird's-nest orchids

What is bird's-nest orchids the plural of?
Bird's-nest orchids is the plural of bird's-nest orchid.

Words near bird's-nest orchids in the dictionary

  1. bird's-foot trefoils
  2. bird's-foots
  3. bird's-nest fern
  4. bird's-nest ferns
  5. bird's-nest orchid
  6. bird's-nest orchids
  7. bird's-nest soup
  8. bird's-tongue
  9. bird-alane
  10. bird-bolt
  11. bird-brained

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