Orchis

The term orchis comes from the Greek, meaning testicle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The handsome, large purple-fringed orchis is also found here. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Of all the fragrant blossoms that haunt the woods, I know none so exquisite as that night-scented orchis which is called indifferently, the butterfly or the lily of the valley. ❋ Various (N/A)

He was a very unlovely man was Private Sim, especially when asleep, for at this time he opened his mouth very wide, and around it the busy flies were flitting, evidently taking it for the flower of some new kind of orchis or carnivorous plant, and they buzzed about and around it as if enjoying the fun of going as near as they could without quite getting into danger. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

A kind of orchis, and used, with its various appellations, "sensu obsc." ❋ Various (1852)

Bishop's Cap, Dutchman's breeches, and showy orchis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Exit orchis: A little action now would save our fast disappearing wildlife. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Revision of "Exit orchis," Wildlife 2: 2 (Aug 1940), 17.] ❋ Unknown (2008)

Flowers were scarce, and there were not many orchids, but I noticed the fine white butterfly-orchis, Phalaenopsis grandiflora, or a species closely allied to it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

There the lambs came bleating to her, and the orchis lifted up, and the thin dead leaves of clover lay for the new ones to spring through. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Their roots broke the turf, and among those bones were green waterfalls and cushions of grass in which violets grew in spring or in summer the wild purple orchis. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Because of the suggestive shape of its bulbs, the orchid gets its name from the Greek word “orchis”, meaning testicles. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The list of esculent vegetables, and wild fruits is too contemptible to deserve notice, if the ‘sweet tea’ whose virtues have been already recorded, and the common orchis root be excepted. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A great many new plants were found to-day and yesterday, chiefly of the orchis tribe16: we saw numbers of the ornithorynchus, or water mole, in the river, also a few turtle: we were not successful in obtaining any fish, so that we were unable to decide whether it contained the same species as the Macquarie. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Theophrastus, a botanist in ancient Greece, observing a pair of these devices in an orchid he was studying, compared them with another pair also found in nature (orchis, testicles). ❋ Unknown (1997)

Though you may be choke-full of science, not one in twenty of you knows where to find the wood-sorrel, or bee-orchis, which grow in the next wood, or on the down three miles off, or what the bog-bean and wood-sage are good for. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)

And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)

When the flowers of early summer are gone, and the graceful neottia is seen in the meadows, extending its spiral clusters among the nodding grasses, -- when the purple orchis is glowing in the wet grounds, and the roadsides are gleaming with the yellow blossoms of the hypericum, the merry voice of the Bobolink has ceased, and many other familiar birds have become almost silent. ❋ Various (N/A)

There are [too many] risks with gender-reassignment [surgery], so I'm [leaning] towards an orchie cuz that's easier. ❋ Queerasf*ck (2017)

have [you seen] Orchie? ❋ Bdthorns (2020)

[hey man] are you going to the orchy [concert] [tonight]? ❋ JBuck828 (2009)

that orchi was totally [violating] that [penguin] in ways you [can't even] imagine ❋ Monkeyhead (2004)

Steve had a few too many Orchys before work and didn't [pick up] [the screws] from [Bunnings] ❋ Rollinwinnies (2023)