tress : Idioms & Phrases


european ladies' tresses

  • noun European orchid having shorter racemes of strongly spiraling snow-white flowers
    Spiranthes spiralis.
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hooded ladies' tresses

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

  • noun an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having slender often twisted spikes of white flowers
    ladies' tresses.
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La"dy's tra"ces, La"dies' tress"es (Also<
  • Lady's traces
  • Ladies' tresses
)
Definitions
  1. (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.
Webster 1913

lady's tresses

  • noun an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having slender often twisted spikes of white flowers
    ladies' tresses.
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western ladies' tresses

  • noun similar to Spiranthes romanzoffiana; States
    Spiranthes porrifolia.
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