orchis
UK /ˈɔː.kɪs/ US /ˈɔɹ.kɪs/
noun 2
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noun
1
An orchid; now specifically, a plant of the genus Orchis.
[T]heir maid has dreſſed their hats with cowſlips, orchiſſes, cuckoo-flowers, and golden-cups—[…]
In spring, what a place it was for wild flowers!―as Lucy Raymond and her brothers well knew, having often brought home thence great bunches of dielytras and convallarias and orchises; and at any time some bright blossoms were generally to be found gleaming through the shade.
2
A testis.
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