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EARLY PURPLE ORCHID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does early purple orchid mean?
• EARLY PURPLE ORCHID (noun)
The noun EARLY PURPLE ORCHID has 1 sense:
1. Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike
Familiarity information: EARLY PURPLE ORCHID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
early purple orchid; male orchis; Orchis mascula
Hypernyms ("early purple orchid" is a kind of...):
orchis (any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes)
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