oncidium

Any of numerous tropical American orchids of the genus Oncidium, having clusters of showy flowers.

A genus of orchids of the tribe Vandeæ, type of the subtribe Oncidieæ, and known by the free, spreading sepals, and spurless lip free from the short two-auricled column.

A genus of tropical orchidaceous plants, the flower of one species of which (Oncidium Papilio) resembles a butterfly.

Any of the genus Oncidium of tropical orchidaceous plants.

any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers; often grown as houseplants