Lords and Ladies


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Lords´ and La´dies


n.1.(Bot.) The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), - those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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