orchidaceous plant

Questions about orchidaceous plant

What does orchidaceous plant mean?

orchidaceous plant means "any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors".

What is another word for orchidaceous plant?

Close synonyms include 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 orchidaceous plant a common word?

orchidaceous plant 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.