One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens.
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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