Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

orchidaceous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

Syllables: or-chi-da-ceous
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to orchids.

adj

Exotic in a rare, mysterious, alluring, or sensual way.

Example Sentences

"In keeping with the orchidaceous theme of the wedding, the decorator draped the walls with lavenders and pinks."
"These stories were variously received. […] J. D. found them “charged with Corvonian idiosyncrasy, a jumble-jargon composed of modern slang, old English, Latin, Italian and Greek,” adding: “The Corvo vocabulary is orchidaceous.”"

Etymology

From Orchidaceae; equivalent to orchid + -aceous.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: orchid

Inflected Forms

more orchidaceous (comparative) most orchidaceous (superlative)

Synonyms

orchidean orchideous

Rhymes With

gracious spacious cretaceous tenacious audacious gaseous herbaceous voracious flirtatious vivacious ostentatious fallacious

Questions

What does orchidaceous mean?: Of or pertaining to orchids.
Where does orchidaceous come from?: From Orchidaceae; equivalent to orchid + -aceous.

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