Definition of "orchidaceous" [or•chi•da•ceous]

• Of, relating to, or characteristic of the orchid family. (adjective)
• Suggesting ostentatious luxury; showy. (adjective)

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• "It was one of those brilliant orchidaceous days on the North Shore of Oahu, under the towering palms."
• "THE DAY THEY ARRIVED in New York, they had aimed the Airstream directly for Seventy-third and Broadway, where a one-bedroom apartment awaited them in the orchidaceous Ansonia Hotel."
• "If it is such an orchidaceous rarity as the world of worshippers would have us believe, then we know it must be the parasitic equivalent of our existence feeding upon the health of other functions and sensibilities in ourselves."