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Definition: Bee Orchid |
Bee OrchidNoun1. European orchid whose flowers resemble bumble bees in shape and color. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Bee OrchidSynonym: Ophrys apifera (n). (additional references) |
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| Ophrys apifera |
Ophrys apifera is said to resemble a bee, and this may be used to attract bees to aid in pollination. (apifera means "bee-bearer"). The flower is furry to the touch. The flower is quite variable in the pattern of coloration.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bee orchid."
| Language | Translations for "bee orchid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Dutch | bijenorchis, bijenophrys, býenorchis. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | ophrys abeille. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Bienenragwurz. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | οφρύς η μελισσοφόρος. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | vesparia. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eebay orchiday erva-abelha. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ophrys apifera Huds.(ssp. apifera). (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-h-i-o-r" | |
-2 letters: birched, brioche, cheerio, choired, cohered, ochered. | |
-3 letters: bodice, boride, breech, broche, ceboid, cheder, cheero, chider, chored, coheir, cohere, corbie, deicer, dreich, echoed, echoer, heired, herbed, herdic, heroic, ochred, orchid, oreide, recode, reecho, rhodic. | |
-4 letters: beech, bider, birch, boche, bored, boric, brede, breed, bride, cebid, ceder, cered, cheer, chide, chiro, choir, chord, chore, cider. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-e-h-i-o-r" | |
+2 letters: chemisorbed. | |
+5 letters: comprehendible. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 65 4F 72 63 68 69 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100101 00100000 01001111 01110010 01100011 01101000 01101001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e e   O r c h i d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0065 004F 0072 0063 0068 0069 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671712498469747570 |
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