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# orchid

noun (orchid, orchids)

«orchid» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An orchid is a beautiful flower with petals of unusual shapes; there are many thousands of kinds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchid/#m1)
2. Orchid is also a pale purple color. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchid/#m2)

### In the lessons

flowers counted in a vase, often with roses; added or cut; in science, a plant family that often grows in warm, wet forests; vanilla comes from an orchid

### Examples

- There were 15 roses and 62 orchids in the vase. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchid/#x1)
- Jessica cut some more orchids. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchid/#x2)
- Now there are 96 orchids. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchid/#x3)
- How many orchids did she cut? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchid/#x4)
- Grandma grows orchids on her windowsill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchid/#x5)
- Some orchids grow on trees in the rainforest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchid/#x6)
- Vanilla comes from the pod of an orchid. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchid/#x7)
- The orchid has white and purple petals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchid/#x8)
- Orchids need light but not too much sun. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchid/#x9)
- She gave her teacher an orchid in a pot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchid/#x10)

### Note

A thing counted, a kind of flower. Trap: roses and orchids in one vase are counted apart; «now there are N» gives the end amount, so cut = now − before. The «ch» is said like «k»: OR-kid.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «orchid» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchid/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«orchid» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/orchid.html) on Mova free.