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Orchidaceous
Orchidaceous
a.
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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