a.
Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate.
n.
The quality or state of being ladylike.
n.
A sweetheart or mistress.
The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels.
A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba).
An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb.
An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris).
A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.
A long, slender variety of the potato.
One of the branchiae of the lobster.
A plant of the genus Briza (B. media); a variety of quaking grass.
n.
The rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by her or your).
A slender climbing plant; dodder.
See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.
A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.
The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum).
The black bryony (Tamus communis).
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).
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