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cattleya
[ kat-lee-uh, kat-lee-uh, -ley-uh ]
noun
- any of several tropical American orchids of the genus Cattleya, having showy flowers ranging from white to purple.
cattleya
/ ˈkætlɪə /
noun
- any tropical American orchid of the genus Cattleya, cultivated for their purplish-pink or white showy flowers
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Example Sentences
Our Cattleya House is 187 feet long, 24 feet wide; glass screens divide it into seven compartments.
Here also is Cattleya bicolor Measuresiana, an exquisite example of a species always charming to my taste.
Cattleya Sanderiana was first discovered under circumstances rather odd.
Like Cattleya Schroderae it filled a gap when discovered in 1883, for there was no species at the time which flowered in July.
This was Cattleya Sanderiana—sometimes as much as eleven inches across; in colour, a tender rosy-mauve.
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