EUROPEAN LADIES' TRESSES

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Meaning:

European orchid having shorter racemes of strongly spiraling snow-white flowers

Synonyms:

European ladies' tresses; Spiranthes spiralis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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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