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butterfly orchid
noun
- an epiphytic South American orchid, Oncidium papilio, having large yellow and reddish-brown flowers.
- either of two terrestrial Old World orchids, Habenaria chlorantha or H. bifolia, having long clusters of greenish-white flowers.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of butterfly orchid1
First recorded in 1590–1600
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Example Sentences
When she calms herself she finds she has snipped her prize butterfly orchid.
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Half the UK's greater butterfly orchids have been lost in the last 50 years.
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The others are intermediate wintergreen, lesser butterfly orchid and small cow-wheat.
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She bends to her special beauty, the butterfly orchid she smuggled back from Hawaii two years ago.
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