meaning of orchis
1. A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last years tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous.
2. Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.
3. one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got
">away"
Related Words
orchis | orchis mascula | orchis papilionaceae | orchis spectabilis | orchises |
