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Noun: orchis  or-kis
  1. Any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes
    "The orchis bloomed in the damp woodland clearing"

Derived forms: orchises

Type of: orchid, orchidaceous plant

Part of: genus Orchis

Encyclopedia: Orchis