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Orchis has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes

2

one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

"she kicked him in the balls and got away"

3

Any plant of the genus Orchis; an orchid.

See Also
orchid lip
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
orchid male reproductive gland gonad
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
male orchis butterfly orchid showy orchis cobblers undescended testis
Rhyming Words
his whis chis this phis aphis ofhis ofthis rishis mathis sothis rachis genghis myrrhis agathis memphis stathis apophis in this colchis
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