purple orchis(n = noun.plant) orchis spectabilis, purple-hooded orchis, showy orchis - North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood;
is a kind of orchis

banded purple, butterfly orchis, early purple orchid, fen orchis, fringed orchis, genus orchis, green fringed orchis, late purple aster, male orchis, orchis, orchis mascula, orchis papilionaceae, orchis spectabilis, order of the purple heart, prairie white-fringed orchis, purple, purple amaranth, purple anise, purple apricot, purple avens, purple bacteria, purple beech, purple boneset, purple chinese houses, purple clematis, purple clover, purple cress, purple emperor, purple finch, purple fringeless orchid, purple fringeless orchis, purple gallinule, purple grackle, purple granadillo, purple ground cherry, purple heart, purple heather, purple loco, purple locoweed, purple loosestrife, purple martin, purple milk vetch, purple mullein, purple nightshade, purple onion, purple osier, purple passage, purple pea, purple poppy mallow, purple rock brake, purple sage, purple sanicle, purple saxifrage, purple silkweed, purple strawberry guava, purple trillium, purple velvet plant, purple virgin's bower, purple willow, purple-fringed orchis, purple-hooded orchis, ragged orchis, red-spotted purple, reddish purple, rein orchis, retinal purple, royal purple, showy orchis, texas purple spike, tyrian purple, visual purple, white fringed orchis