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Extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers
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cymbidium
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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 ...
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Cymbidium may refer to: Cymbidium , the boat orchids, a plant genus in the family Orchidaceae Cymbidium (brachiopod) , a Silurian brachiopod genus
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.