Is Oncidium a Latin Word?

Any of numerous tropical American orchids of the genus Oncidium, having clusters of showy flowers. [New Latin Oncidium, genus name : Greek onkos, barb, hook (from the shape of its labellum) + New Latin -idium, diminutive suff. (from Greek -idion).]

Is orchid a Latin word?

1845, introduced by John Lindley in the third edition of "School Botany," from Modern Latin Orchideæ (Linnaeus), the plant's family name, from Latin orchis, a kind of orchid, from Greek orkhis (genitive orkheos) "orchid," literally "testicle," from PIE *h(o)rghi-, the standard Indo-European word for "testicle" (source ...

Is Oncidium an epiphyte?

As epiphytes, Oncidium orchids thrive when mounted on a plaque or bark of wood. It can be driftwood or tree fern.