dendrobium

See also: Dendrobium

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

dendrobium (plural dendrobiums)

  1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Dendrobium.
    • 2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post:
      “I think there are a lot of people like me who would not have become a collector were it not for Chadwick’s,” says Sarah Ann Scott, who lives in Chesterfield County. She is dropping off two bloomed-out dendrobiums and a cattleya and picking up a perky slipper orchid.

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