ladies' tresses

Questions about ladies' tresses

What does ladies' tresses mean?

ladies' tresses means "an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having slender often twisted spikes of white flowers".

What is another word for ladies' tresses?

Close synonyms include lady's tresses. 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 ladies' tresses a common word?

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.