oncidium

1. 1.

   any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers; often grown as houseplants

   Synonymsdancing lady orchidbutterfly plantbutterfly orchid

   Broaderorchid

   Part ofgenus Oncidium

Other forms of oncidium

plural

oncidiums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about oncidium

What does oncidium mean?

oncidium means "any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers; often grown as houseplants".

How many syllables are in oncidium?

oncidium has 4 syllables: on-ci-di-um. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for oncidium?

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

oncidium 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.