orchidaceous

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to orchids.
    — In keeping with the orchidaceous theme of the wedding, the decorator draped the walls with lavenders and pinks.
  2. Exotic in a rare, mysterious, alluring, or sensual way.
    — 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.”

词形变化

more orchidaceous comparative most orchidaceous superlative

词源

From Orchidaceae; equivalent to orchid + -aceous.
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