Color Names

Mauve Orchid

Faded mauve, like the petals of an orchid that's dropped its showy bloom.

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Mauve Orchid is a muted pink, close to mauve.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

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Mauve Orchid

Mauve

Mauve is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower. The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–1798 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.

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Orchid

Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Orchids are cosmopolitan plants, living in diverse habitats on every continent except Antarctica. The world's richest diversity of orchid genera and species is in the tropics. Many species are epiphytes, living on trees. The flowers and their pollination mechanisms are highly specialized, attracting insect pollinators by colour, pattern, scent, pheromones, and sometimes by mimicking female insects. Orchids have very small seeds, relying on fungal partners for germination. Some orchids have no leaves, either photosynthesizing with their roots or relying entirely on fungal partners for food.

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Orchid (color)

Orchid is a bright rich purple color that resembles the color which various orchids often exhibit.

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mauve

Noun

  1. A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
  2. A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.

Adjective

  1. Having a pale purple colour.
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orchid

Noun

  1. A plant of the orchid family (Orchidaceae), bearing unusually-shaped flowers of beautiful colours. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. A light bluish-red, violet-red or purple colour.

Adjective

  1. Having a light purple colour.
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