Associations to the word «Twayblade»

Wiktionary

TWAYBLADE, noun. Any of several orchids, of the genera Lipara and Listera, that have a pair of basal leaves.

Dictionary definition

TWAYBLADE, noun. Orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia.
TWAYBLADE, noun. An orchid of the genus Liparis having a pair of leaves.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats