moth orchid

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moth orchid (plural moth orchids)

  1. Any of the genus Phalaenopsis of orchids.
    Synonym: phalaenopsis
    • 2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post‎[1]:
      He babysits the orchids that you bought and bloomed and are now watching decline in a stupor of regret, shame and despair. Give Chadwick that flowered-out, wrinkled old moth orchid you got a couple of months ago and he will nurse it back to blooming health.

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