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Definition of Swan orchid
1. Noun. Any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan.
Generic synonyms: Orchid, Orchidaceous Plant
Group relationships: Cycnoches, Genus Cycnoches
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swan Orchid
Literary usage of Swan orchid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The orchid-grower's manual by Benjamin Samuel Williams (1871)
"This is a very handsome and remarkable species, known to many by the name of the
Golden swan orchid; it produces long racemes of closely-set light yellow ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Horticultural Society of London (1886)
"The " swan orchid." Eight species, from Guiana and Mexico. See Bot. Mag., t.
3855, 4054, 4213 ; Gard. Chron., 1879, xi., 268 ; Bot. Mag., t. ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1849)
"The swan-orchid, • chus, next met us. This is ful plant ; it needs no pair gination
to detect at a ¡ most curious resemblance bears to the proud bird wl it ..."
4. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1891)
"... think that fact grotesquely undeserving of a note of exclamation, but to
explain would be too technical. It may be observed that the famous swan orchid, ..."
5. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1894)
"Among the first of these was the swan orchid (Cycnoches Loddigesii) which was
described as a beautiful and extraordinary plant. This, as may be seen, ..."
6. The Christian Parlor Magazine by Darius Mead (1850)
"... expanded before him, as if Cinderella had been to a ball among the flowers,
and dropped her wonderful shoe upon its branches. The swan- orchid, the ..."
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