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Noun: orchid family
  1. Enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers
    - Orchidaceae, family Orchidaceae

Type of: liliopsid family, monocot family

Part of: Orchidales, order Orchidales

Encyclopedia: Orchid family

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orchestra
orchestra pit
orchestral
orchestral bells
orchestrate
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orchestrator
orchid
orchid cactus
orchid family
orchid tree
Orchidaceae
orchidaceous
orchidaceous plant
Orchidales
orchidalgia
orchidectomy
orchiectomy
orchil
orchiopexy