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any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors

1. capitalized : a genus of Central and So. American orchids having solitary or racemose variously colored flowers with a 3-lobed labellum and pseudobulbs bearing one or two oblong leaves

2. -s : any plant of the genus Laelia

/lee"lee euh/, n.

any of several epiphytic tropical American orchids of the genus Laelia, having fleshy leaves and showy flowers.

[ < NL (1763), perh. after Caius Laelius, Roman statesman of the 2d century B.C.; see -A²]