orchis

orchis is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous.
2. noun. Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.
3. noun. one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

   "she kicked him in the balls and got away"

   Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, nut, testicle, testis

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

Synonyms

ball, ballock, bollock, egg, nut, testicle, testis

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in orchis:

chiros, choirs, ichors

Common word forms

orchises

Words from these letters

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