LADIES' TRESSES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ladies' tresses mean? 

• LADIES' TRESSES (noun)
  The noun LADIES' TRESSES has 1 sense:

1. an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having slender often twisted spikes of white flowers

  Familiarity information: LADIES' TRESSES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LADIES' TRESSES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

ladies' tresses; lady's tresses

Hypernyms ("ladies' 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 "ladies' 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 ("ladies' tresses" is a member of...):

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