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vanda

(ˈvændə)

(Plants) any epiphytic orchid of the E hemisphere genus Vanda, having white, mauve, blue, or greenish fragrant flowers

[C19: New Latin, from Hindi vandā mistletoe, from Sanskrit]

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vanda - any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes

orchid, orchidaceous plant - any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors

genus Vanda - genus of showy epiphytic orchids of Himalayas to Malaysia

blue orchid, Vanda caerulea - famous orchid of northern India having large pale to deep lilac-blue flowers

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'I would like to confirm that today I decided to remove Nhim Vanda as senior minister and first vice-president of the National Committee for Disaster Management for lacking responsibility and telling a lie,' Hun Sen said.

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Mihael H Polymeropoulos, MD, Vanda's president and CEO, said, 'During the first quarter, Vanda made significant advances towards its commercial and research goals.

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The study was terminated before reaching its enrollment goal of 90 patients because of its complexity, Vanda said in a separate press release.

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"The Easybeats" was formed in 1964 after Young met Dutch-born Vanda at the Villawood Migrant Hostel in Sydney, where both his and Vanda's families stayed following the arrival in the country. 

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Vanda said: "He did not share an awful lot with his family - he kept his family life very separate from his history.

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It was decades later, at mother Evie's funeral, that the family secret came out - the baby was Vanda's brother, the result of a relationship Evie had with a married man.

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Vanda said: "It was a surprise but it didn't matter.

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Although all of the Hetlioz commercials are about blind people, Vanda knows that there aren't enough poorly sleeping blind folks in the US, even at $281 per tablet, to justify the cost of its massive ad blitz.

Another drug that we don't need and can't afford

Reichenbach (1823-1889) described this species in 1882, in the Gardeners' Chronicle, and he gave it the name of Vanda sanderiana.