hooded ladies' tresses

hooded ladies' tresses
noun
orchid having dense clusters of gently spiraling creamy white flowers with 2 upper petals forming a hood; western North America
Hypernyms: ↑ladies' tresses, ↑lady's tresses
Member Holonyms: ↑Spiranthes, ↑genus Spiranthes

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noun plural but singular or plural in construction
: a native orchid (Spiranthes romanzoffiana) that is widely distributed in northern No. America and occurs occasionally in Ireland and eastern Asia and that has spikes of small creamy or straw-colored almond-scented flowers with sepals and petals partly fused into an upward arching hood

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