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Liparis

noun
1.
An orchid of the genus Liparis having few leaves and usually fairly small yellow-green or dull purple flowers in terminal racemes.
2.
Type genus of the Liparididae: snailfishes.  Synonym: genus Liparis.



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"Liparis" Quotes from Famous Books



... flow through such greasy veins of soil that they are overspread with oil when they burst out as springs: for example, at Soli, a town in Cilicia, the river named Liparis, in which swimmers or bathers get anointed merely by the water. Likewise there is a lake in Ethiopia which anoints people who swim in it, and one in India which emits a great quantity of oil when the sky is clear. At Carthage is a spring ...
— Ten Books on Architecture • Vitruvius


Words linked to "Liparis" :   snailfish, orchid, Liparidae, sea snail, Liparididae, fish genus, orchidaceous plant, seasnail, Liparis liparis, family Liparididae, family Liparidae


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