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n. - An orchid of a certain genus having few leaves and usually fairly small yellow-green or dull purple flowers in terminal racemes.

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  • Understand then (Noble Ladies) that neere to Sicily, there is a small Island, commonly called Liparis, wherein (not long since) lived a yong Damosell, named Constance,...
  • Liparis, where they were entertained with generall rejoycing.
  • Soli, a town in Cilicia, the river named Liparis, in which swimmers or bathers get anointed merely by the water.
  • One blustery damp morning, the minister had made a minor discovery about the gender and sexuality of the Liparis Liparis.
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