bird's-nest orchid

English

Noun

bird's-nest orchid (plural bird's-nest orchids)

1. A species of orchid, Neottia nidus-avis, native to Europe and Russia.
   • 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 13:

     James learned to chew the wood sorrel for its acid flavour, to watch for its flowers closing on approach of rain, and found where the rare bird's-nest orchid grew.