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Ladies' tresses   Listen
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Ladies' tresses, Lady's traces  n.  (Bot.) A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.





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"Ladies' tresses" Quotes from Famous Books



... meadows is the perfect small fern for a bit of wet ground, and is the green to be used with all wild flowers of like places. One day last autumn I had a bouquet of grass-of-Parnassus, ladies' tresses, and gentian massed thickly with these ferns, and the posey lived for days on the sunny window shelf of the den (for gentians close their eyes in shade),—a bit of the ...
— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright


Words linked to "Ladies' tresses" :   lady's tresses, hooded ladies' tresses, European ladies' tresses, screw augur, Spiranthes, Spiranthes porrifolia, orchid, Spiranthes cernua, Spiranthes romanzoffiana, western ladies' tresses, Spiranthes spiralis, orchidaceous plant, genus Spiranthes


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