| ladies' tresses also lady's tresses pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Any of various orchids of the genus Spiranthes, having a spike or raceme of small flowers usually arranged in a spiral. |
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| Noun | 1. |  ladies' tresses - an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having slender often twisted spikes of white flowersorchid, orchidaceous plant - any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors genus Spiranthes, Spiranthes - large cosmopolitan genus of white-flowered terrestrial orchids 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;States European ladies' tresses, Spiranthes spiralis - European orchid having shorter racemes of strongly spiraling snow-white flowers |
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