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    Synonyms and Definitions

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    orchis


    1. Orchis Mascula (Salab Mishri): It has been traditionally used to treat sexual dysfunctions encountered in both men and women, such as loss of libido or lack of interest in sex and infertility, premature ejaculation, low sperm counts and erectile dysfunction


    2. Holly was sniffing at a purple orchis


    3. Other similar cases could be given; for instance in plants, the very curious contrivance of a mass of pollen-grains, borne on a foot-stalk with an adhesive gland, is apparently the same in Orchis and Asclepias, genera almost as remote as is possible among flowering plants; but here again the parts are not homologous


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    Synonyms for "orchis"

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    "orchis" definitions

    any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes


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