odontoglossum
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See also: Odontoglossum
English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
odontoglossum (plural odontoglossums)
- Any of very many orchids of the genus Odontoglossum.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World , London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- The vegetation had again changed, and only the vegetable ivory tree remained, with a great profusion of wonderful orchids, among which I learned to recognize the rare Nuttonia Vexillaria and the glorious pink and scarlet blossoms of Cattleya and odontoglossum.