butterfly orchid

Questions about butterfly orchid

What does butterfly orchid mean?

butterfly orchid means "any orchid of the genus Psychopsis: spectacular large tiger-striped orchids". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for butterfly orchid?

Close synonyms include oncidium, dancing lady orchid, butterfly plant, butterfly orchis, Epidendrum venosum. 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 butterfly orchid a common word?

butterfly orchid is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.