(Bot.) The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Bot.) A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term is sometimes applied to other plants of the same genus. [ 1913 Webster ]

def>A kind of broadcloth of light weight, used for women's dresses, cloaks, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An erect or climbing shrub (Fuchsia coccinea) of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers.
Syn. -- ladies'-eardrop, lady's-eardrops, ladies'-eardrops, Fuchsia coccinea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

1. pl. (Bot.) The kidney vetch, Anthyllis vulneraria; called also lady's fingers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Cookery) A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A long, slender variety of the potato. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) One of the branchiae of the lobster. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Bot.) A tall coarse annual (Abelmoschus esculentus) of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern U. S. and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; it is sometimes placed in the genus Hibiscus. [ wns=1 ] different from lady's fingers
Syn. -- okra, gumbo, okra plant, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>n. (Bot.) Ribbon grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Briza (Briza media); a variety of quaking grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Bot.) A slender climbing plant; dodder. [ 1913 Webster ]