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cymbidium definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers [syn: cymbid, cymbidium]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin, genus name, from Latin cymba boat, from Greek kymb? Date: 1815 any of a genus (Cymbidium) of tropical Old World epiphytic orchids with showy flowers

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. any tropical orchid of the genus Cymbidium, with a recess in the flower-lip. Etymology: mod.L f. Gk kumbe cup