Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One versed in orchids.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in orchidology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who studies
orchids .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A Protestant missionary stationed in the Caribbean who became a meticulous, self-taught orchidologist, Dod is said to have discovered more than 50 orchid species during his 17-year stay in Puerto Rico and subsequent residence in the Dominican Republic.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The new orchid species - described recently in Lankesteriana, the international journal on orchidology - is named Ornithidium donaldeedodii, after orchidologist Donald Dod, who collected the specimen in the 1980s and served, in his later years, as a research associate for the UC Herbarium.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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A Protestant missionary stationed in the Caribbean who became a meticulous, self-taught orchidologist, Dod is said to have discovered more than 50 orchid species during his 17-year stay in Puerto Rico and subsequent residence in the Dominican Republic.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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A Protestant missionary stationed in the Caribbean who became a meticulous, self-taught orchidologist, Dod is said to have discovered more than 50 orchid species during his 17-year stay in Puerto Rico and subsequent residence in the Dominican Republic.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The new orchid species - described recently in Lankesteriana, the international journal on orchidology - is named Ornithidium donaldeedodii, after orchidologist Donald Dod, who collected the specimen in the 1980s and served, in his later years, as a research associate for the UC Herbarium.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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First collected in the 1980s by renowned orchidologist Donald Dod, the specimen was identified as a unique species thanks to DNA testing and analysis.
TreeHugger 2010
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A Protestant missionary stationed in the Caribbean who became a meticulous, self-taught orchidologist, Dod is said to have discovered more than 50 orchid species during his 17-year stay in Puerto Rico and subsequent residence in the Dominican Republic.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The new orchid species - described recently in Lankesteriana, the international journal on orchidology - is named Ornithidium donaldeedodii, after orchidologist Donald Dod, who collected the specimen in the 1980s and served, in his later years, as a research associate for the UC Herbarium.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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First collected in the 1980s by renowned orchidologist Donald Dod, the specimen was identified as a unique species thanks to DNA testing and analysis.
TreeHugger 2010
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The new orchid species - described recently in Lankesteriana, the international journal on orchidology - is named Ornithidium donaldeedodii, after orchidologist Donald Dod, who collected the specimen in the 1980s and served, in his later years, as a research associate for the UC Herbarium.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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