HOODED LADIES' TRESSES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hooded ladies' tresses mean? 

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

1. orchid having dense clusters of gently spiraling creamy white flowers with 2 upper petals forming a hood; western North America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOODED LADIES' TRESSES (noun)

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Meaning:

Orchid having dense clusters of gently spiraling creamy white flowers with 2 upper petals forming a hood; western North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hooded ladies' tresses; Spiranthes romanzoffiana

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

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