| 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. |
ladies' tresses
any plant of the genus Spiranthes, family Orchidaceae, numbering as many as 30 species of orchids found in woods and grasslands throughout most of the world. Goodyera repens, an unrelated British species, is known as creeping ladies' tresses.
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