gongora

See also: Gongora

English

Etymology

From the genus name; after Antonio Caballero y Góngora.

Noun

gongora (plural gongoras)

1. An orchid of the genus Gongora.
   • 1992, Joyce Stewart, Orchids at Kew, page 64:

     The gongoras seem to thrive best in mesh plastic pots.

   • 1992, The Orchid Digest, volumes 57-58, page 168:

     Always, of course, there was the hope of encountering one of those breathstopping orchids — maybe a mormodes, or a gongora, or some flashy epidendrum.

   • 1996, Orchids: The Magazine of the American Orchid Society:

     The floras of Venezuela, the Guyanas and Brazil are poor in respect to gongoras.