NOUN
- any of numerous orchids of the genus Maxillaria often cultivated for their large brilliantly colored solitary flowers
How To Use maxillaria In A Sentence
- Thus, the aim of this paper is to describe, for the first time, the secretion and chemical composition of nectar in a presumed entomophilous species of Maxillaria and to compare this with data previously obtained for M. coccinea.
- Consequently, it is speculated that M. anceps is melittophilous and is perhaps more typical of nectariferous Maxillaria spp. than the presumed ornithophilous M. coccinea.
