snowy orchid

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   slender fringed orchid of eastern North America having white flowers

   SynonymsHabenaria nivea

   Broaderfringed orchis

Questions about snowy orchid

What does snowy orchid mean?

snowy orchid means "slender fringed orchid of eastern North America having white flowers".

What is another word for snowy orchid?

Close synonyms include Habenaria nivea. 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 snowy orchid a common word?

snowy 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.