Noun:
- small genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids
Coryanthes英英释义
Coryanthes 例句
1 Coryanthes.—These are similar in habit to Stanhopea.
2 Let me only recall one other case, that of the orchid, called Coryanthes macrantha.
3 Do you know Coryanthes, with its wonderful basket of water?
4 From such structures we may advance till we come to such a case of extraordinary adaptation as that lately described by Dr. Cruger in the Coryanthes.
5 What purpose has the long spur in the flower of Angraecum, or the marvellous bucket of Coryanthes, the flytrap of Dionaea, the pitcher of Nepenthes?
6 Bees visit these flowers, like those of the Coryanthes, in order to gnaw the labellum; in doing this they inevitably touch a long, tapering, sensitive projection, or, as I have called it, the antenna.
7 For these curious contrivances in the case of Salvia, Coryanthes, and other plants, would in any case have been no use to the plant till the whole machinery was complete.