any of a genus (Epidendrum) of small-flowered, chiefly tropical American, epiphytic orchids
Origin of epidendrum
Modern Latin from epi-, epi- + Classical Greek dendron, tree: see dendro-epidendrum
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Noun
(plural epidendrums)
- (botany) Any plant of the genus Epidendrum.
Origin
From the genus name.
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Sentence Examples
- Laeliinae, with 22 genera, natives of the warmer parts of America, including three of those best known in cultivation, Epidendrum, Cattleya and Laelia.
- The bottom of the border as well as that Cymbidium Cypripedium Cyrtopodium Dendrobium Diacrium Disa Epidendrum Eulophia Eulophiella Galeandra Gongora Grammatophyllum Habenaria Houlletia lonopsis Ipsea Laelia Laelio-Cattleya* Leptotes Lissochilus Lycaste Masdevallia Miltonia Mormodes Odontoglossum Odontioda* Oncidium Peristeria Pescatorea Phaj us Phaio - calanthe* Phalaenopsis Pilumna Platyclinis Pleione Pleurothallis Polystachya Promenaea Renanthera Restrepia Rodriguezia S accolabium Schomburgkia Scuticaria Sobralia Sophro-cattleya* Sophronitis Spathoglottis Stanhopea Thunia Trichopilia Trichosma Vanda Zygo - colax* of the drain must be kept lower than the general level of the subsoil, else the soakage will gather in all the little depressions of its surface.
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WORDS NEAR epidendrum IN THE DICTIONARY
- epidendrum
- epidemy
- epidendroid
- epidendroideae