orchideaEtymologyFrom Italian Orchidea, from orchidea (“orchid”).nameA female given name from Italian [in turn from Latin], of rare usage.“Miss Orchidea M. Battiston, daughter of John Battiston of 282 Wallabout St., will be married to Cadet Anthony A. Fiorenza, also of Brooklyn, on Palm Sunday.”nounSynonym of orchid.“The old trees were decorated with beautiful orchideas*, yellow bannisterias, blue-flowered bignonias, peperomias, arums, and pothoses.[…]* Cymbidium violaceum, habenaria angustifolia, &c.”