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Ladies' tresses   /lˈeɪdˌiz trˈɛsɪz/   Listen
noun
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



... shadowy colonnade of the woods. Not once had her troubled look wandered from the moist dead leaves on the ground, to the misty edges of the forest, where small wild flowers thronged in a pale procession of pipsissewa, ladies' tresses, and Enchanter's nightshade. ...
— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow


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