मांसल स्थलीय या मांसल कंदों या रूटस्टॉक्स और असामान्य फूलों के साथ बारहमासी स्थलीय या एपिफाइटिक पौधों का विशाल विश्वव्यापी परिवार

orchidaceae's Usage Examples:

In Orchidaceae the stigma is situated on the anterior surface of the column beneath the anther.

Ericaceae, Pyrolaceae, Gentianaceae, Orchidaceae, ferns, 'c. Recent experiments have shown that the difficulties of getting orchid seeds to germinate are due to the absence of the necessary fungus, which must be in readiness to infect the young seedling immediately it emerges from the seed.

Succulent specimens, as many of the Orchidaceae and seduins and various other Crassulaceous plants, require to be killed by immersion in boiling water before being placed in drying paper, or, instead of becoming dry, they will grow between the sheets.

Of the herbaceous vegetation of the more rainy regions may be noted the Orchidaceae, Orontiaceae, Scitamineae, with ferns and other II.

Euphorbiaceae and Scrophulariaceae and Orchidaceae are universally present, the last in specially large proportions.

The principal orders, arranged according to their numerical importance, are as follows: - Leguminosae,Rubiaceae, Orchidaceae, Compositae, Gramineae, Euphorbiaceae, Acanthaceae, Cyperaceae and Labiatae.

The word Orchis is used in a special sense to denote a particular genus of the Orchid family (Orchidaceae); very frequently, also, it is employed in a more general way to indicate any member of that large and very interesting group. It will be convenient here to use the word Orchis as applying to that particular genus which gives its name to the order or family, and to employ the term "orchid" in the less precise sense.

orchidaceae's Meaning':

enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers