LADY'S LACES
Dictionary entry overview: What does lady's laces mean? • LADY'S LACES (noun)
The noun LADY'S LACES has 1 sense:
1. perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves; Europe and North America
Familiarity information: LADY'S LACES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LADY'S LACES (noun)
Meaning:
Perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves; Europe and North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
gardener's garters; lady's laces; Phalaris arundinacea; reed canary grass; ribbon grass
Hypernyms ("lady's laces" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
Holonyms ("lady's laces" is a member of...):
genus Phalaris; Phalaris (a genus of grasses with broad leaves and a dense spike of flowers)
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