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Does it really mean that? How do you know that?
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yes sadly it does
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why?
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because the flowers that were named for it, part of their shape looks like testicles so they say, but IMO they don't.
from wikipedia.org:
"Orchis is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae). This genus gets its name from the Greek όρχις orchis, meaning "testicle", from the appearance of the paired subterranean tuberoids"
Orchid is also a color though, and doesn't have anything to do with the flowers.
from wikipedia.org:
"Orchis is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae). This genus gets its name from the Greek όρχις orchis, meaning "testicle", from the appearance of the paired subterranean tuberoids"
Orchid is also a color though, and doesn't have anything to do with the flowers.
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Yeah, but purple has rather sexual connotations if you ask me, doesn't it? And orchid is purple.
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orchids come in variety of colors
This message was edited 7/9/2009, 9:53 PM
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