helmet orchid   (TTS Sound)

The noun helmet orchid has 2 senses

• helmet orchid, greenhood -- (any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood)


• helmetflower, helmet orchid -- (any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process)