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    LADY'S TRESSES

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    An orchid of the genus Spiranthes having slender often twisted spikes of white flowersplay

    Synonyms:

    ladies' tresses; lady's tresses

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("lady's tresses" is a kind of...):

    orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lady's tresses"):

    screw augur; Spiranthes cernua (an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having tall erect densely flowered spiraling clusters of creamy white vanilla-scented flowers; widely distributed especially in low damp places of eastern and central North America)

    hooded ladies' tresses; Spiranthes romanzoffiana (orchid having dense clusters of gently spiraling creamy white flowers with 2 upper petals forming a hood; western North America)

    Spiranthes porrifolia; western ladies' tresses (similar to Spiranthes romanzoffiana; western United States)

    European ladies' tresses; Spiranthes spiralis (European orchid having shorter racemes of strongly spiraling snow-white flowers)

    Holonyms ("lady's tresses" is a member of...):

    genus Spiranthes; Spiranthes (large cosmopolitan genus of white-flowered terrestrial orchids)

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