odontoglossum

See also: Odontoglossum

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

odontoglossum (plural odontoglossums)

  1. Any of very many orchids of the genus Odontoglossum.
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      The vegetation had again changed, and only the vegetable ivory tree remained, with a great profusion of wonderful orchids, among which I learned to recognize the rare Nuttonia Vexillaria and the glorious pink and scarlet blossoms of Cattleya and odontoglossum.
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