[T]heir maid has dreſſed their hats with cowſlips, orchiſſes, cuckoo-flowers, and golden-cups—[…]
Source: wiktionary
Orchis
/ˈɔɹ.kɪs/
Synonyms for "orchis" (11 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
9 entriesMore specific
6 entriesOrchis anthropophoraOrchis masculaOrchis militarisorchis powdersalep powdertuber powder
Collocations
6 entriesOrchidaceae familyOrchis masculaOrchis militarisorchis genusorchis tubersalep powder
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesTranslations
5 translations across 4 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- orchis noun (orchis)
Hungarian
2 entries- kosbor noun (orchis)
- orchidea noun (orchis)
Lithuanian
1 entries- gegužraibė noun (orchis)
Volapük
1 entries- rogid noun (orchis)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
In spring, what a place it was for wild flowers!―as Lucy Raymond and her brothers well knew, having often brought home thence great bunches of dielytras and convallarias and orchises; and at any time some bright blossoms were generally to be found gleaming through the shade.
Source: wiktionary
He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
Source: wiktionary