WordNet
n. any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan [syn: swan orchid, swanflower, swan-flower, swanneck]
Usage examples of "swan-neck".
At noon on Shatterday, as if by mass somnambulism, the entire village gathered in the crater by the swan-neck of fire.
Even at night, wearing sunglasses, he could see they did not have the swan-neck prows of real gondolas in Venice, but sported leering gargoyles as figureheads, hand-carved from wood, garishly painted, perhaps fearsome at one time but now cracked, weathered, and peeling.
Where had they gone, my lovely swan-necked nurse and my weeping comrades?
Rupert Campbell-Black, showing Helen, huge-eyed, swan-necked, her Titian hair spread by a wind machine, Rupert’.