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Any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a hood-shaped three-lobed lip enclosing the column
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a hood-shaped three-lobed lip enclosing the column; among the most popular and most extravagantly beautiful orchids known
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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cattleya \cattleya\ n. any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a hood-shaped three-lobed lip enclosing the column; they are among the most popular and most extravagantly beautiful orchids known. Called also cattleya orchid .
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Cattleya is a genus of 113 species of orchids from Costa Rica and the Lesser Antilles south to Argentina . The genus was named in 1824 by John Lindley after William Cattley who received and was the first to bloom a specimen of Cattleya labiata . William ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) Any plant of the genus ''Cattleya'', a species of orchid.
Usage examples of cattleya.
If I succeed in crossings new Cattleya, I plan to call it the Cicely Angleton after my wife.
In the blaze of the Cattleya room she only looked dazed, but the Dendrobiums and Phalaenopsis really got her.
The vegetation had again changed, and only the vegetable ivory tree remained, with a great profusion of wonderful orchids, among which I learned to recognize the rare Nuttonia Vexillaria and the glorious pink and scarlet blossoms of Cattleya and odontoglossum.