Orchid aceæ (or kid a see)

pl. [NL. (Lindley, 1835), (or'kil), n . [Formerly also orchel , orchal , orchall , orchell , orchel , orcheil, orseil, F. orseille , etc.: see archil .] Same as archil . chil, 2. orchiodynia (or ki-o-din'i-a), n. όρχις, a testicle, + ὀδύνη, pain.] ticle. [NL., Gr. Pain in a tes orchis (or'kis), n .; pl. orches (-kēz). [NL., όρχις , a testicle.] In an at ., the testis, testicle, or its equivalent. orchis (or'kis), n. [= F. orchis, ορχε- ), a plant, the orchis, so called from the shape of the roots, ὄρχις , & testicle.] 1. A plant of the genus Orchis ; also, one of numerous plants in other genera of the orchis family, Orchideæ . Bring orchis , bring the foxglove spire, The little speedwell's darling blue. Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxxiii. ordain 2. [ cap.] [NL. (Linnæus, 1737).] A genus of plants, type of the order Orchideæ, belonging to the tribe Ophrydeæ and the subtribe Serapieæ, characterized by its spurred lip, and by the two pollen-glands being inclosed in a common pouch. It in cludes about 80 species, mainly of the north temperate regions of the Old World, with two in the United States. They are terrestrial plants with few long-sheathing broadly elliptical leaves, and flowers of middle size in a spike terminating the erect and unbranched stem. The common American species is 0. spectabilis, the showy orchis, of rich woods northward, having two obovate glo y leaves, and a few pretty racemed flowers, pink-purple with white lip. For some common British species, see Cain-and- Abel, cullion, 2, dead-men's - fingers, 1, long - purples, 1, fool stones, johnny - cocks, and hand orchis. Bird's-nest orchis. See Neottia. Crane-fly_orchis. See Tipularia. - Fen-orchis. See Liparis. Fringed orchis, one of several American species of Habenaria with cut-fringed lip, including white, yellow, greenish, and purple-flowered species. See cut under Habenaria. - Frog-orchis, Habenaria virid is. Green man orchis, Same as man-orchis. - Medusa's head orchis, Cirrhopetalum Meduse, with thread-like pendent sepals and petals. - Musk-orchis. See Hermi nium. Rein-orchis, any plant of the genus Habenaria. (See also bee -orchis, bog-orchis, butterfly-orchis, fly-orchis, man-orchis, spider-orchis.) IMG:content-1803.jpg:[graphic] Flowering Plant of Showy Orchis (Orchis spectabilis).