How to use orchid in a sentence

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• He has been keeping orchids since retiring.From the entry keep
• The farmer specialized in the propagation of rare orchids.From the entry propagation
• She was a devoted cultivator of roses and orchids.From the entry cultivator
• Orchid bees are the only group of corbiculate bees whose non-parasitic members do not all possess eusocial behavior.From the entry orchid bee
• The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and include all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc.From the entry endogen
• She is dropping off two bloomed-out dendrobiums and a cattleya and picking up a perky slipper orchid.2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The…. From the entry dendrobium
• 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…. From the entry cattleya
• Moth orchids, or phalaenopsis, are indigenous to countries such as the Philippines and Malaysia.2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The…. From the entry phalaenopsis
• Some of the most gothic-looking slipper orchids are found in steamy Sumatra.2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The…. From the entry phalaenopsis
• "I hope she doesn't go in for big purple orchids," Miss Tinkham said to Mrs.2016, Mary Lasswell, Let's Go For Broke. From the entry go in for
• But not just ordinary roses or tulips, she had majestic African lilies and exotic oriental orchids.2010, Avionne Anthony, The Witness, page 146. From the entry African lily
• "Orchid plantations, meanwhile, have already become a profit-making business for some farmers in recent years."2002 November 26, Kevin Chen, “Farm sector feels market changes after WTO entry”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Tahu
• Should we be awarding peloric orchids without evidence of reproducible flowering?1995, American Orchid Society bulletin: Volume 64, Issue 4. From the entry pelorism
• But he gave us both flowers, little spring orchids, and smiled at us like we were Jesus.1994 March 21, Bill Bill, “spring orchids”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet). From the entry Jesii
• In many orchids there is a discrete "viscidium," or sticky pad, formed by the rostellum.1993, Robert L. Dressler, Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family, page 45. From the entry rostellum
• And shaken with ice but not served with it, save for a single cube emblazoned with Halekulani’s logo (the Cattleya orchid).2023 March 31, Gillian G. Gaar, “Bar Hopping Hawaiian Style”, in WineAndWhiskeyGlobe.com, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2025. From the entry orgeat
• Equally great was "Orchidelirium," the orchid craze that saw rare orchids being sold at London auctions for exorbitant prices.2018, Why Look at Plants?: The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art, page 27. From the entry orchidelirium
• The bulbs contain a mucilaginous carbohydrate called glucomannan, which the orchids use to retain water during dry periods.2007 August 1, Harold Mcgee, “Ice Cream That’s a Stretch”, in New York Times. From the entry glucomannan
• The soil was so infertile that most vegetation could hardly survive, but the area was an orchid paradise.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 553. From the entry infertile
• One does not nave to have the income of a Nero Wolfe to play with orchids at home.1969, Garden Journal, volumes 19-21, New York Botanical Garden, page 40. From the entry Nero Wolfe
• He babysits the orchids that you bought and bloomed and are now watching decline in a stupor of regret, shame and despair.2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The…. From the entry moth orchid
• Give Chadwick that flowered-out, wrinkled old moth orchid you got a couple of months ago and he will nurse it back to blooming health.2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The…. From the entry moth orchid
• Orchids rely on fungi to reproduce.2014 April 5, “Quite interesting: A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week; QI orchids you…. From the entry symbiotic
• Always, of course, there was the hope of encountering one of those breathstopping orchids — maybe a mormodes, or a gongora, or some flashy epidendrum.1992, The Orchid Digest, volumes 57-58, page 168. From the entry gongora
• The first thing I see is a sympathy bouquet from the Dean of New College—white roses, anthuria and orchids in a crystal vase next to the sink.2019, Helen Marshall, The Migration, Titan Books, →ISBN. From the entry anthurium
• Sir Abercrombie is the Nero Wolfe of Snowdonia; his vanities and obsessions focus not on food, orchids, and English language usage, but on Shakespeare quotations for all occasions.2016, Marjorie Garber, The Muses on Their Lunch Hour, Fordham University Press, page 119. From the entry Nero Wolfe
• A recent arrangement of soaring glass vases, green calla lilies, green anthuriums, pale green cymbidium orchids and gnarled, sandblasted manzanita branches had guests gathered around it in awe.2009 May 23, Donna Yawching, Toronto Star. From the entry cymbidium
• Children swung from the branches of the banyan tree, teenagers climbed into the arbours of orchids and gourds into which the abandoned cars had been transformed.1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 24. From the entry arbor
• 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. From the entry wood sorrel
• There were quaint paths, pillared with antic trees, latticed with drolly peering faces of extravagant orchids, that led the seeker to hidden, surprising bowers of goblinry.1938, Clark Ashton Smith, “The Maze of Maâl Dweb”, in A Rendezvous in Averoigne: Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith, Sauk City…. From the entry goblinry

Meaning of orchid

1. noun A plant of the orchid family (Orchidaceae), bearing unusually-shaped flowers of beautiful colours.
2. noun A light bluish-red, violet-red or purple colour.
3. adjective Having a light purple colour.

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How do you use orchid in a sentence?

Orchid is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “He has been keeping orchids since retiring.”

What is a short sentence with orchid?

“Orchids rely on fungi to reproduce.”

What does orchid mean?

Orchid means a plant of the orchid family (Orchidaceae), bearing unusually-shaped flowers of beautiful colours.