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Definition of Orchidlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orchidlike
Literary usage of Orchidlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chapters in Modern Botany by Patrick Geddes (1893)
"... somewhat orchidlike in appearance, though really akin to the primroses, which
are commonly considered to represent the simpler regular ancestral form, ..."
2. Plant Inventory by Agricultural Research Center-West (U.S.), United States Division of Botany, Horticultural Crops Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service, United States Dept. of Agriculture, United States, United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Northeastern Regi (1922)
"Roots of a beautiful orchidlike plant which forms a spike about 6 inches high,
upon which one flower appears at a time. The flowers, about 2 to 3 inches ..."
3. The Port of Adventure by Charles Norris Williamson (1913)
"Dimly and wordlessly he had felt that here was a creature who had reached an
orchidlike perfection through a long process of evolution, and generations of ..."
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