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twayblade


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Twayblade  \Tway"blade`\,  n.  (Bot.) 
  Any  one  of  several  orchidaceous  plants  which  have  only  two 
  leaves,  as  the  species  of  {Listera}  and  of  {Liparis}. 
  [Written  also  {twyblade}.] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  twayblade 
  n  1:  orchid  having  a  pair  of  ovate  leaves  and  a  long  slender 
  raceme  of  green  flowers  sometimes  tinged  red-brown; 
  Europe  to  central  Asia  [syn:  {Listera  ovata}] 
  2:  an  orchid  of  the  genus  Liparis  having  a  pair  of  leaves 




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