gongora

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English

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Etymology

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From the genus name; after Antonio Caballero y Góngora.

Noun

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gongora (plural gongoras)

  1. An orchid of the genus Gongora.
    • 1992, Joyce Stewart, Orchids at Kew, page 64:
      The gongoras seem to thrive best in mesh plastic pots.
    • 1992, The Orchid Digest, volumes 57-58, page 168:
      Always, of course, there was the hope of encountering one of those breathstopping orchids — maybe a mormodes, or a gongora, or some flashy epidendrum.
    • 1996, Orchids: The Magazine of the American Orchid Society:
      The floras of Venezuela, the Guyanas and Brazil are poor in respect to gongoras.