orchis

/ˈɔrkəs/

Other forms: orchises

Definitions of orchis

1. noun

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

   Orchis mascula, early purple orchid, male orchis

   Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike

   Orchis papilionaceae, butterfly orchid, butterfly orchis

   Mediterranean orchid having usually purple flowers with a fan-shaped spotted or striped rose-red lip

   Orchis spectabilis, purple orchis, purple-hooded orchis, showy orchis

   North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood

   type of:

   orchid, orchidaceous plant

   any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
2. noun

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

   cobblers

   a man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball)

   undescended testicle, undescended testis

   a testis that fails to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops

   type of:

   gonad, sex gland

   a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced

   male reproductive gland

   the reproductive organs of a man