Word.ws English Dictionary

cattleya

/ˈkatlɪə/

cattleya noun: any plant of the genus Cattleya, a genus of orchids.

cattleya: any plant of the genus Cattleya, a genus of orchids
Image: Louise Wolff -- darina, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

cattleya (plural cattleyas)

  1. Any plant of the genus Cattleya, a genus of orchids.
    • The vegetation had again changed, and only the vegetable ivory tree remained, with a great profusion of wonderful orchids, among which I learned to recognize the rare Nuttonia Vexillaria and the glorious pink and scarlet blossoms of Cattleya and odontoglossum.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
    • A bell chimes as you open the door, and fans swirl below a pressed-tin ceiling. Cymbidiums, cattleyas and other flowering orchids are presented in decorative pots on round tables.2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post

cattleya meaning in Arabic

cattleya in Arabic

plant of the genus Cattleya
قَطَلَة qaṭala, مَلاعِقِيَّة malāʕiqiyya

Forms of cattleya

pluralcattleyas

Origin of cattleya

Borrowed from translingual Cattleya, named after William Cattley, English botanist.

Words formed from cattleya

Questions about cattleya

What does cattleya mean?
Cattleya means any plant of the genus Cattleya, a genus of orchids.
What is cattleya in Arabic?
Cattleya in Arabic is قَطَلَة (qaṭala), مَلاعِقِيَّة (malāʕiqiyya). See Cattleya meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is cattleya?
Cattleya is a noun.
How do you pronounce cattleya?
Cattleya is pronounced /ˈkatlɪə/ (UK).
What is the plural of cattleya?
The plural of cattleya is cattleyas.

Words near cattleya in the dictionary

  1. cattlewealth
  2. cattlewoman
  3. cattlewomen
  4. Cattley guava
  5. Cattley guavas
  6. cattleya
  7. cattleyas
  8. cattling
  9. cattling up
  10. catto
  11. cattobomancy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cattleya (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cattleya.wav.

Cite this entry: “cattleya.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cattleya. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.