Medical Definition of Orchella
1. 1. A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. 2. The plant from which the dye is obtained. Alternative forms: orchal and orchil. Origin: OF. Orchel, orcheil, It. Orcella, oricello, or OSp. Orchillo. Cf. Orchil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orchella
Literary usage of Orchella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar by William Walter Augustine Fitzgerald (1898)
"orchella-weed was reported to be plentiful, and I passed some dead and deciduous
trees covered with it; it became still more plentiful further on. ..."
2. Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufactures (1833)
"At the beginning of the fourteenth century the peculiar properties of the orchella
were accidently discovered by a Florentine, who had been called by his ..."
3. The Microtomist's Vade-mecum: A Handbook of the Methods of Microscopic Anatomy by Arthur Bolles Lee (1885)
"... INDIGO-CARMINE, SAFFRON, orchella, INK. 98. Purpurin. *—Purpurin was first
introduced to histo- logical practice by Ranvier, who found in it an ..."
4. The Manual of Colours and Dye Wares: Their Properties, Applications by John William Slater (1870)
"A substance found by Schunk in orchella weeds, probably identical with ...
Besides the orchella-weeds, various sea-weeds and lichens possess tinctorial ..."
5. Ures̓ Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear by Andrew Ure (1867)
"orchella WEEDS. The cylindrical and flat species of Roccella used in the manufacture
of ... The following Ны of orchella weeds is given by Perdra. ..."
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