Usually means: Orchid species resembling delicate butterflies.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word butterfly orchid:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. butterfly orchid: Merriam-Webster
  2. butterfly orchid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. butterfly orchid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. butterfly orchid: Vocabulary.com
  5. butterfly orchid: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. butterfly orchid: Dictionary.com
  7. Butterfly orchid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. butterfly orchid: Rhymezone
  9. butterfly orchid: FreeDictionary.org
  10. butterfly orchid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. butterfly orchid: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. butterfly orchid: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Butterfly Orchid, Butterfly Orchid: Botanical Name listing of Plants

(Note: See butterfly_orchids as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (butterfly orchid)

noun:  Mediterranean orchid having usually purple flowers with a fan-shaped spotted or striped rose-red lip
noun:  orchid of Florida and the Bahamas having showy brightly colored flowers; sometimes placed in genus Epidendrum
noun:  Mexican epiphytic orchid having pale green or yellow-green flowers with white purple-veined lip
noun:  any orchid of the genus Psychopsis: spectacular large tiger-striped orchids
noun:  any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers; often grown as houseplants


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