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Orchidaceous
- - Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidaceae) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics.
Orchidectomy
- noun - surgical removal of one or both testicles
Orchiopexies
- noun - operation to bring an undescended testicle into the scrotum
Orcinus Orca
- noun - predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
Order Apodes
- noun - elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced
Order Arales
- noun - Araceae; Lemnaceae
Order Lobata
- noun - ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage; body compressed vertically having two large oral lobes and four pointed processes
Ordinability
- - Capability of being ordained or appointed.
Ordinariness
- noun - the quality of being commonplace and ordinary
Ordinaryship
- - The state of being an ordinary.