a plant with complex flowers that are often showy or bizarrely shaped, having a large specialized lip (labellum) and frequently a spur. Orchids occur worldwide, especially as epiphytes in tropical forests, and are valuable hothouse plants 兰科植物,兰花
Family Orchidaceae: numerous genera and species 兰科:众多属,众多种 ■the flowering stem of a cultivated orchid 兰花
派生 orchidist noun 语源
mid 19th cent.: from modern Latin Orchid(ac)eae, formed irregularly from Latin orchis (see orchis)