butterfly orchis

Questions about butterfly orchis

What does butterfly orchis mean?

butterfly orchis means "Mexican epiphytic orchid having pale green or yellow-green flowers with white purple-veined lip". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for butterfly orchis?

Close synonyms include butterfly orchid, Epidendrum venosum, Encyclia venosa, butterfly orchid, Orchis papilionaceae. 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 orchis a common word?

butterfly orchis 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.