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Answer for the clue "Any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers ", 9 letters:
cymbidium

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Cymbidium is a brachiopod genus in the order Pentamerida from Silurian Alaska, from the Cape Phillips Formation from Baillie-Hamilton Island , Arctic Canada and Malaya .

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n. any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers [syn: cymbid ...

Usage examples of cymbidium.

Napkins folded like silken husks sprouted dewy-fresh cymbidium orchids.

In front of the windows were simple, iron plant stands, each bearing a pot of fabulous white cymbidium orchids.

The perfumes of verbena and cymbidium and Yggdrasil entered the room, blending with the fusty, musty odours of the countless leather-bound volumes overflowing from the ancient bookcases that hid the walls.

She carried a bouquet of cymbidium orchids, and she was shaking with nerves.

He was sitting at his desk examining with a magnifying glass the rostellum from a Cymbidium Alexanderi that Horstmann had brought down wilty on the stem.

In the next room, Cattleyas, Laelias, hybrids, and miscellaneous, Theodore Horstmann was over at one side pouring fertilizer on a row of Cymbidiums, which are terrestrials, and Rowcliff took a look at him but didn't say anything.