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burnt-tip orchid

noun

a small orchid, Orchis ustulata, resembling the lady orchid, having dark reddish-brown hoods that give a burnt look to the tip of the flower spike

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burn the midnight oil, burn to a cinder, burnt offering, burnt shale, burnt sienna, burnt-tip orchid, burnt umber, burnup, burn your bridges behind you, bur oak, buroo
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