It was one of those brilliant orchidaceous days on the North Shore of Oahu, under the towering palms. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
The following details all refer to flowers in which the number of stamens in orchidaceous plants was increased beyond what is necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
THE DAY THEY ARRIVED in New York, they had aimed the Airstream directly for Seventy-third and Broadway, where a one-bedroom apartment awaited them in the orchidaceous Ansonia Hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Skinny Legs and All]
If it is such an orchidaceous rarity as the world of worshippers would have us believe, then we know it must be the parasitic equivalent of our existence feeding upon the health of other functions and sensibilities in ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
The Count has a beautiful collection of orchidaceous plants, to which several houses are devoted. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Glimpse of the Late War in Bohemia] Reference
What startling disclosures are revealed to the inward eye within the hearts of all these strange orchidaceous flowers!. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
Here and there the bright flowers of some orchidaceous plant ornamented their summits, or hung down from their boughs. From Wordnik.com. [In the Eastern Seas] Reference
The dark, damp wilderness is favorable to some of these orchidaceous plants, though they are too delicate for cultivation. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
Many of our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of moths to remove their pollen-masses and thus to fertilise them. From Wordnik.com. [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference
There are several beautiful varieties of orchidaceous plants upon the mountains; among others, several species of the dendrobium. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference
Nearly all our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of insects to remove their pollen-masses and thus to fertilise them. From Wordnik.com. [III. Struggle for Existence. Complex Relations of All Animals and Plants to Each Other in the Struggle for Existence] Reference
I looked at a woman's basket of leaves which she had collected for supper, and it contained eight or ten kinds, with mushrooms and orchidaceous flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference
The orchidaceous plants grown in a damp stove are all epiphytes, which, in their natural state, grow either on the branches of trees, or on exposed rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally] Reference
There is, likewise, a beautiful orchidaceous plant, which is very common throughout the patinas on the mountains, and which produces the very finest quality of arrowroot. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference
Here the number of orchidaceous plants greatly increased, hanging down from the boughs of nearly all the trees, clinging to them so closely that they often appeared to belong to the tree. From Wordnik.com. [In the Eastern Seas] Reference
No one plays a love scene better, but it is a picture of love that she gives, a strange orchidaceous picture rather than a suggestion of the ordinary human passion as felt by ordinary human people. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life]
In some orchids there is no caudicle to the pollen-masses, and the grains are merely tied together by fine threads; but as these are not confined to orchids, they need not here be considered; yet I may mention that at the base of the orchidaceous series, in Cypripedium, we can see how the threads were probably first developed. From Wordnik.com. [VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection] Reference
This inlet was fringed with such dense masses of the mangrove shrub, on which clung countless numbers of small tree-oysters, -- adhering to their branches in clusters, and looking as though they subsisted thereon after the manner of orchidaceous plants, -- that we could obtain no view whatever, save of the hills towering to the height of some ten hundred or twelve hundred feet above us. From Wordnik.com. [What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile] Reference
"Fancy a slender-hipped orchidaceous person, an epicene youth with. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques] Reference
"Many of our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of moths to remove their pollen-masses and thus to fertilise them. From Wordnik.com. [The Spectator's take on Darwin, 1882] Reference
Pothos plants, and broad-leaved arums, bamboos, wild plantains, and palms, were seen all along the way, while lovely orchidaceous flowers, -- epiphytes and trailing plants, -- hung down from the trunks and branches of the great trees, forming festoons and natural trellis-work, that stretched across the path and almost closed it up. From Wordnik.com. [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference
The learned writer then adverts to the 'extraordinary, but certain fact, that in orchidaceous plants, forms just as different as wheat, barley, rye, and oats, have been proved by the most rigorous evidence, to be accidental variations of one common form, brought about no one knows how, but before our eyes, and rendered permanent by equally mysterious agency. From Wordnik.com. [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference
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