dove plant

English

Noun

dove plant (plural dove plants)

  1. A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the centre of the flower resembles a dove.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dove plant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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