Monkflower

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Monkflower \Monk"flow`er\, n. (Bot.)
     A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of
     flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now
     ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus
     ({Catasetum tridentatum}, etc.).
     [1913 Webster]