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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 year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous.
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The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.
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Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.
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Same as Orchidaceous.
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The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.
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The branch of botany which treats of orchids.
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One versed in orchidology.
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A colorless crystalline substance, C6H3.CH3.(OH)2, which is obtained from certain lichens (Roccella, Lecanora, etc.), also from extract of aloes, and artificially from certain derivatives of toluene. It changes readily into orcein.
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See Orchestra.
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A large music box imitating a variety of orchestral instruments.
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One who cultivates an orchard.
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Orchards, in general.
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Orchidaceous.
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Orchestral.
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of Orchis
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See Orchestra.
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Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.
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Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidaceae) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics.
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Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.
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Any species of amphipod crustacean of the genus Orchestia, or family Orchestidae. See Beach flea, under Beach.
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