male orchis

Questions about male orchis

What is another word for male orchis?

It depends which male orchis you mean. In the sense “Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike”, the synonyms are early purple orchid, Orchis mascula. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of male orchis?

WordNet records no antonym for male orchis. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for male orchis come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of male orchis

• Full entry for male orchisAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for male orchisWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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