gongora

plural gongoras

1. An orchid of the genus Gongora.

   The gongoras seem to thrive best in mesh plastic pots.

   1992, Joyce Stewart, Orchids at Kew, page 64

   2 more examples

   Always, of course, there was the hope of encountering one of those breathstopping orchids — maybe a mormodes, or a gongora, or some flashy epidendrum.

   1992, The Orchid Digest, volumes 57-58, page 168

   The floras of Venezuela, the Guyanas and Brazil are poor in respect to gongoras.

   1996, Orchids: The Magazine of the American Orchid Society

plural Gongoras

1. A surname.