Definition of Orchis. Meaning of Orchis. Synonyms of Orchis

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Definition of Orchis

Orchis
Lip Lip (l[i^]p), n. [OE. lippe, AS. lippa; akin to D. lip, G. lippe, lefze, OHG. lefs, Dan. l[ae]be, Sw. l["a]pp, L. labium, labrum. Cf. Labial.] 1. One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself. Thine own lips testify against thee. --Job xv. 6. 2. An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel. 3. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger. 4. (Bot.) (a) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla. (b) The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous. 5. (Zo["o]l.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell. Lip bit, a pod auger. See Auger. Lip comfort, comfort that is given with words only. Lip comforter, one who comforts with words only. Lip labor, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy. --Bale. Lip reading, the catching of the words or meaning of one speaking by watching the motion of his lips without hearing his voice. --Carpenter. Lip salve, a salve for sore lips. Lip service, expression by the lips of obedience and devotion without the performance of acts suitable to such sentiments. Lip wisdom, wise talk without practice, or unsupported by experience. Lip work. (a) Talk. (b) Kissing. [Humorous] --B. Jonson. To make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. --Shak. To shoot out the lip (Script.), to show contempt by protruding the lip.

Meaning of Orchis from wikipedia

- along with a number of subspecies: Orchis adenocheila Czerniak. (Iran) Orchis anatolica Boiss. (including Orchis troodi (Renz) P.Delforge) – Anatolian...
- Orchis gracilis may refer to three different species of plants: Orchis gracilis (Blume) Soó, a taxonomic synonym for delicate amitostigma, Hemipilia gracilis...
- Orchis mascula, the early-purple orchid, early spring orchis, is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Orchis mascula is a perennial...
- also includes Vanilla (the genus of the vanilla plant), the type genus Orchis, and many commonly cultivated plants such as Phalaenopsis and Cattleya....
- Orchis simia, commonly known as the monkey orchid, is a greyish pink to reddish species of the genus Orchis. It gets its common name from its lobed lip...
- a flour made from the tubers of the orchid genus Orchis (including species Orchis mascula and Orchis militaris). These tubers contain a nutritious, starchy...
- However, Orchis's existence and myth does not seem to be attested to in classical times. The unattested myth supposedly goes that Orchis was the son...
- Orchis militaris, the military orchid, is a species of orchid native to Europe. It is the type species of the genus Orchis. This plant grows to a height...
- Camus (1928) Orchis fuchsii Druce (1915) (basionym) Orchis fuchsii f. lancefolia Snarskis (1963) Orchis fuchsii f. maxima Snarskis (1963) Orchis hebridensis...
- "Orchis Fatalis" is the third episode of the eighth season of British television show Midsomer Murders and the thirty-eighth episode overall. It stars...