foxtail orchid

1. 1.

   any of various orchids of the genus Rhyncostylis having pink- to purple-marked white flowers in a dense cylindrical raceme

   Broaderorchid

   Part ofRhyncostylis

Questions about foxtail orchid

What does foxtail orchid mean?

foxtail orchid means "any of various orchids of the genus Rhyncostylis having pink- to purple-marked white flowers in a dense cylindrical raceme".

Is foxtail orchid a common word?

foxtail 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.