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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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rare
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Some rare plants such as orchids are found here.
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We collected them like rare orchids , gleefully sharing our latest acquisitions and discoveries.
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Foxes fiddled in the thickets. Rare orchids bloomed unseen and the wind came always from the east.
wild
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Bird species are numerous as are rare flowers which include wild orchids .
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The large numbers of wild orchids being traded threatens some species with extinction.
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I'd get wild orchids for the garden, I told Mrs Goreng, knowing some had grown near Rosa's.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bill got the orchid bug from an old neighbour who encouraged him to to start breeding the plants.
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On the cliff top, marsh orchids, pink and lush, clustered in damp hollows.
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She was drawn to the orchid display by the Three Rivers Orchid Society.
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The Nashs have four hundred orchids ... but just sixty are considered ready for exhibiting.
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The white casket was covered with a spray of irises, orchids and apricot-colored roses.
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There were salamanders and orchids of endangered varieties.
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This is a site of national importance for its variety of wold flowers, including many species of orchid .
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With deliberation, I pulled up all my orchids and threw them, strewn with crumbs of earth, into the wheel-barrow.