odontoglossum

See also: Odontoglossum

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

odontoglossum (plural odontoglossums)

1. Any of very many orchids of the genus Odontoglossum.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     The vegetation had again changed, and only the vegetable ivory tree remained, with a great profusion of wonderful orchids, among which I learned to recognize the rare Nuttonia Vexillaria and the glorious pink and scarlet blossoms of Cattleya and odontoglossum.