Other forms: orchids
An orchid is an exotic flower with strangely shaped, delicate blooms. A white orchid, orchids in bloom, water the orchid.
It is the largest plant family there is, with some twenty-eight thousand species, and many depend on a single insect that the flower has evolved to imitate. Vanilla comes from an orchid pod. The Greek name refers to the shape of the roots.
1nounorchidA flowering plant with elaborate blooms.
“He gave her a white orchid in a pot for her birthday.”
orchid is a flower.
From Greek orchis, the name given for the shape of the plant's paired roots.
Ancient Greek
ὄρχις — orchid, testicle
Latin
orchis
English, today
orchid
From New Latin Orchideae, Orchidaceae, an irregular formation from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (“orchid, testicle”) (ostensibly from the shape of the roots). Supplanted Middle English ballokwort literally “testicle plant”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA