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Noun: fly orchid
  1. Any of several dwarf creeping orchids with small bizarre insect-like hairy flowers on slender stalks
     
  2. European orchid whose flowers resemble flies
    - Ophrys insectifera, Ophrys muscifera

Derived forms: fly orchids

Type of: orchid, orchidaceous plant

Part of: genus Trichoceros, Trichoceros

Encyclopedia: Fly orchid

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