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EUROPEAN LADIES' TRESSES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does European ladies' tresses mean?
• EUROPEAN LADIES' TRESSES (noun)
The noun EUROPEAN LADIES' TRESSES has 1 sense:
1. European orchid having shorter racemes of strongly spiraling snow-white flowers
Familiarity information: EUROPEAN LADIES' TRESSES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EUROPEAN LADIES' TRESSES (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
European orchid having shorter racemes of strongly spiraling snow-white flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
European ladies' tresses; Spiranthes spiralis
Hypernyms ("European ladies' tresses" is a kind of...):
ladies' tresses; lady's tresses (an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having slender often twisted spikes of white flowers)
Holonyms ("European ladies' tresses" is a member of...):
genus Spiranthes; Spiranthes (large cosmopolitan genus of white-flowered terrestrial orchids)
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