hooded ladies' tresses

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   orchid having dense clusters of gently spiraling creamy white flowers with 2 upper petals forming a hood; western North America

   SynonymsSpiranthes romanzoffiana

   Broaderladies' tresses

   Part ofSpiranthes

Questions about hooded ladies' tresses

What does hooded ladies' tresses mean?

hooded ladies' tresses means "orchid having dense clusters of gently spiraling creamy white flowers with 2 upper petals forming a hood; western North America".

What is another word for hooded ladies' tresses?

Close synonyms include Spiranthes romanzoffiana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hooded ladies' tresses a common word?

hooded ladies' tresses is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.