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Noun: hooded ladies' tresses
  1. Orchid having dense clusters of gently spiralling creamy white flowers with 2 upper petals forming a hood; western North America
    "The hooded ladies' tresses was named for its distinctive petal formation";
    - Spiranthes romanzoffiana

Type of: ladies' tresses, lady's tresses

Part of: genus Spiranthes, Spiranthes

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