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pansy orchid

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mil⋅to⋅ni⋅a

[mil-toh-nee-uh]
–noun
any of various epiphytic tropical American orchids of the genus Miltonia, having sprays of showy, flat, variously colored flowers.
Also called pansy orchid.


Origin:
< NL (1837), after Charles W. W. Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton (1786–1857), English statesman and horticulturist; see -ia
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pansy orchid

noun
any of various orchids of the genus Miltonia having solitary or loosely racemose showy broadly spreading flowers 
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