blue orchid

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   famous orchid of northern India having large pale to deep lilac-blue flowers

   SynonymsVanda caerulea

   Broadervanda

   Part ofgenus Vanda

Questions about blue orchid

What does blue orchid mean?

blue orchid means "famous orchid of northern India having large pale to deep lilac-blue flowers".

What is another word for blue orchid?

Close synonyms include Vanda caerulea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blue orchid a common word?

blue orchid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.