HOODED LADIES' TRESSES

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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

Synonyms:

hooded ladies' tresses; Spiranthes romanzoffiana

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Nouns denoting plants

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)

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