Lady's

Lady's - Other Definitions

• bedstraw () The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels.
  
  
• bower () A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba).
  
  
• comb () An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb.
  
  
• cushion () An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris).
  
  
• finger () The kidney vetch.
  
  
• finger () A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.
  
  
• finger () A long, slender variety of the potato.
  
  
• finger () One of the branchiae of the lobster.
  
  
• garters () Ribbon grass.
  
  
• hair () A plant of the genus Briza (B. media); a variety of quaking grass.
  
  
• laces () A slender climbing plant; dodder.
  
  
• looking-glass () See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.
  
  
• mantle () A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.
  
  
• seal () The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum).
  
  
• seal () The black bryony (Tamus communis).
  
  
• slipper () Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).
  
  
• smock () A plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis); cuckoo flower.
  
  
• thimble () The harebell.
  
  
• thumb () An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.
  
  
• traces () Alt. of Ladies' tresses