orchid's

It was an orchid's name that last weekend attracted me to the coastal site of Ardersier, just east of Inverness.

Country diary: Ardersier 2011

The botanist was particularly eager to see the orchid's flowers because it was a member of the Epicrianthes group of orchids.

Unique night-flowering orchid found 2011

Now close enough to observe the orchid's features clearly, I begin to check them against the descriptions of possible candidates.

Country diary: South Uist 2011

Now close enough to observe the orchid's features clearly, I begin to check them against the descriptions of possible candidates.

Country diary: South Uist 2011

The new orchid's location has surprised botanists.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

The orchid's "eyes" are actually waxy globules of pollen.

Archive 2006-08-01 2006

The orchid's "eyes" are actually waxy globules of pollen.

Ophrys 2006

Minutes old, skin tender and perfect as an orchid's, she was so delicate he feared he would leave fingerprints on her-but so alluring that he had to touch her, drawing the back of his knuckle gently, so gently, down the perfect curve of her fat little cheek, stroking the black cobweb silk of her hair with an unbelieving forefinger.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

I suspect that he makes so much of its name because the orchid's classification was much debated in the first decades of the nineteenth century.

Romantic Interiority and Cultural Objects 1999

He trusted that his disguise would keep him safe enough; after all, Moriarty hardly got even a moment's glance at him when he had attacked the lieutenant with the poisonous orchid's thorn.

Cyberbooks Bova, Ben, 1932- 1989