orchidaceous

The pretty, daisy-like little woman of a few weeks ago was becoming positively orchidaceous.

There was, however, a late flowering of the picturesque in Europe, an orchidaceous fin de siècle efflorescence.

There are several beautiful varieties of orchidaceous plants upon the mountains; among others, several species of the dendrobium.

He also leaves home, abandoning the joys of Fritz's cooking and the orchidaceous pleasures of the plant rooms.

It was one of those brilliant orchidaceous days on the North Shore of Oahu, under the towering palms.

The Nam Tu royal garden features an orchidaceous garden and valuable bonsai ornamental trees.

The Montane room conserves species such as fagaceous, ericaceous, and orchidaceous plants with high diversities in South-east Asia.

There is, likewise, a beautiful orchidaceous plant, which is very common throughout the patinas on the mountains, and which produces the very finest quality of arrowroot.

The reference is to his "Illustrations of Orchidaceous Plants, with Notes and Prefatory Remarks by John Lindley," London, 1830-38, Folio.

Upstairs and down are orchidaceous color schemes - lilac with yellow, charcoal with scarlet - and under a bell jar squats a taxidermied capuchin monkey dressed in mandarin garb.

The activities of the "boldface" celebrities at the Stork Club were chronicled by the "orchidaceous oracle of cafe society", Lucius Beebe, in his syndicated column "This New York".

While Oscar favors the stilted, thesaurus-fed diction of the fantasy-nerd autodidact ( I think she s orchidaceous ), Yunior affects a bilingual b-boy flow, punctuated by bouts of didacticism.

Her skill at playing the gamine became known in the United States, where The New York American commented in 1937: "Among screen types she is like a fresh breeze among too many orchidaceous blooms.

In this book, he gave credence to Sprengel's ideas on the advantages of "intercrossing", and noted: "Many of our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of moths to remove their pollen masses and thus to fertilise them".

Magdalen Tower, which had seen the arrival and departure of many Oxford fads and fashions, from Wycliffe's Lollards to Oscar Wilde's orchidaceous esthetes, could not long survive the advent of the Morris Oxford.

THE DAY THEY ARRIVED in New York, they had aimed the Airstream directly for Seventy-third and Broadway, where a one-bedroom apartment awaited them in the orchidaceous Ansonia Hotel.

Oscar's speech reflects an autodidactic language based on his knowledge of fantasy, 'nerd' literature and his speech is filled with phrases like "I think she's orchidaceous" and "I do not move so precipitously", whereas Yunior "affects a bilingual b-boy flow" and intersperses it with literary language.

The Times later commented, "Edwardes had an uncanny flair for personalities, and in his new recruit he found a personality indeed, an actress with a 'Gaiety sense', a comedian of a rare type, and a wholesome 'comfortable-looking' - his own words - foil to the orchidaceous showgirls of the Gaiety."