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lords and ladies

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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies.

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  • noun Arum maculatum, a common woodland plant species of the Araceae family.

Etymologies

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Those with purplish spadix are the "lords", and those with pale spadix the "ladies".

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  • reesetee commented on the word lords and ladies

    Newfoundland collective nickname for Harlequin Ducks.

    January 12, 2009