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LADY'S LACES

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 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 Americaplay

  Familiarity information: LADY'S LACES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LADY'S LACES (noun)


Sense 1

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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