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Meanings of orchis in English
Synonyms
Examples for "ball"
Examples for "ball"
1
Fiji was really really good on ball skills - particularly the backs.
2
Body-guard, ball given by the; and the Versailles mob; protecting the court.
3
Long French ball forces Solo to rush out to clear her lines.
4
This particular ball is said to have survived the great Chicago fire.
5
It was a rare example of a quality final ball from Liverpool.
1
Result: a fertilized egg with healthy mitochondria and its parents' nuclear DNA.
2
The chick shows itself in the egg, the child in the cradle.
3
Another said: This place couldn't even cook an egg the right way.
4
It's difficult to know which comes first in this particular chicken-or-egg scenario.
5
Season veal cutlets; dip in beaten egg and roll in fine bread-crumbs.
1
Put a nut in the place of the stone in the cherries.
2
Grafting is widely used in plants, especially in fruit and nut crops.
3
Sorry-justneed to test it. I gave the nut a firm bounce.
4
Many cocoa-nut trees were seen in the lower parts of the island.
5
A great nut placement will allow dramatic shifts in direction of pull.
1
However, none of these methods has been applied to the zebrafish testis.
2
The testis' function is to produce haploid germ cells necessary for reproduction.
3
Conclusions: The so-called seminomas of the testis are tumors of old age.
4
Spermatozoa originate in the testis as cells, which are filled with granules.
5
Steroidogenic enzymes are involved in the production of testosterone in the testis.
1
Reid later succeeded in severing the remaining testicle, according to court documents.
2
One testicle is fine; it doesn't affect the ability to have sex.
3
After all, people in the UK have on average one testicle each.
4
The prolapsed testicle was replaced, and the wound healed without serious effect.
5
The scrotum was normally developed, and the right testicle in situ.
1
I must grip thee, my ballock, till thy back crack with it.
2
Now have I understood thee, quoth Panurge, my plushcod friar, my caballine and claustral ballock.
3
But if there came such liquor from my ballock, would you not willingly thereafter suck the udder whence it issued?
4
There were scars on my love, her father's thighs, and on his ballock-pouch, and on his male member, when he died.
5
My harcabuzing cod and buttock-stirring ballock, Friar John, my friend, I do carry a singular respect unto thee, and honour thee with all my heart.
1
And you're not afraid to bollock somebody for their bad habits either.
2
The consensus is that he has dropped a major bollock.
3
As the haberdasher flails in agony, Robert lops off his left bollock by accident.
4
Bollocks, he told himself with what passed for anger within Niall Dunne.
5
Well, you made a dog's bollocks of that, didn't you, little Beta?
Usage of orchis in English
1
This flower is, perhaps, like the English fragrant orchis, found in pastures.
2
Spotted orchis leaves are up, and the palm-willow bears its yellow pollen.
3
One small green orchis stood in the grass, alone; the harebells were many.
4
Here the lovely orchis tribe adorn the gloomy shades with their brilliant flowers.
5
She came back to them presently with a bee orchis.
6
I went after an orchis, and then I saw some Solomon's seal; and oh!
7
These meadows in spring are full of cowslips, and in one part the meadow-orchis flourishes.
8
Occasionally one would alight on the sward among the purple flowers of the meadow orchis.
9
But I have lately had an orchis in flower-viz.
10
See note on orchis, and on anthoxanthum, in Vol.
11
But the musk-orchis {Herminium monorchis} is a case in point.
12
Roots of snow-drop and hyacinth insipid like orchis
13
And where the orchis and violets dwell.
14
Purple vetches along the mounds, yellow lotus where the grass is shorter, and orchis succeeds to orchis.
15
Lying on the doorsill she found some fragrant spikes of late-blooming orchis tied with a grass blade.
16
This root appears to be a species of the orchis, or has much of its nutritive quality.
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