bletilla

[bli-til-uh]

ble·til·la

[bli-til-uh]
noun
any of several terrestrial orchids of the genus Bletilla, of eastern Asia, as B. striata, having terminal clusters of showy purple or white flowers.

Origin:
< Neo-Latin, equivalent to Blet(ia) a similar genus (named in honor of Louis Blet, botanist and apothecary at the Spanish court in 1794; see -ia) + Latin -illa -illa
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Bletilla is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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bletilla

noun
small genus of chiefly east Asiatic hardy terrestrial orchids similar to genus Bletia 
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