gongora
See also: Gongora
English
Etymology
From the genus name; after Antonio Caballero y Góngora.
Noun
gongora (plural gongoras)
- 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, volume 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.
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