touraco
turaco
turacou
turakoo | large brightly crested bird of Africa |
English lady crab
Portunus puber | crab of the English coasts |
American lady crab
lady crab
calico crab
Ovalipes ocellatus | brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States |
ladybug
ladybeetle
lady beetle
ladybird
ladybird beetle | small round brightolored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests |
| lady chapel | a small chapel in a church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary |
| pink lady | a cocktail made of gin and brandy with lemon juice and grenadine shaken with an egg white and ice |
Carmelite order
Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel | a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the th century |
| bag lady | a homeless woman who carries all her possessions with her in shopping bags |
charwoman
char
cleaning woman
cleaning lady
woman | a human female employed to do housework, the char will clean the carpet, I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write |
dame madam
ma'am
lady gentlewoman | a woman of refinement, a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady |
| first lady | the wife of a chief executive |
| first lady | the leading woman in an art or profession |
girl
miss
missy
young lady
young woman
fille | a young woman, a young lady of |
girlfriend
girl lady friend | a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved, his girlfriend kicked him out |
housewife
homemaker
lady of the house
woman of the house | a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income |
Lady
noblewoman
peeress | a woman of the peerage in Britain |
| lady | a polite name for any woman, a nice lady at the library helped me |
| lady-in-waiting | a lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess |
| lady's maid | a maid who is a lady's personal attendant |
| leading lady | actress who plays the leading female role |
lollipop lady
lollipop woman | a woman hired to help children cross a road safely near a school |
| old lady | your own wife, meet my old lady |
c prostitute
cocotte
whore
harlot
bawd
tart
cyprian fancy woman working girl sporting lady
lady of pleasure
woman of the street | a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money |
seducer
ladies' man
lady killer | a man who takes advantage of women |
Diana Princess Diana
Princess of Wales
Lady Diana Frances Spencer | English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles, her death in an automobile accident in Paris produced intense national mourning (-) |
Godiva
Lady Godiva | according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily, the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circ-) |
| Grey Lady Jane Grey | Queen of England for nine days in , she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (-) |
Hamilton Lady Emma Hamilton
Amy Lyon | English beauty who was the mistress of Admiral Nelson (-) |
Lillie
Beatrice Lillie
Lady Peel | British actress (born in Canada) (-) |
Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Lady with the Lamp | English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (-) |
Thatcher Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven
Iron Lady | British stateswoman, first woman to serve as Prime Minister (born in ) |
lady's smock
cuckooflower
cuckoo flower meadow cress
Cardamine pratensis | a bitter cress of Europe and America |
ladies' tobacco
lady's tobacco
Antennaria plantaginifolia | North American perennial propagated by means of runners |
milk thistle lady's thistle
Our Lady's mild thistle
holy thistle
blessed thistle Silybum marianum | tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads, naturalized in California and South America |
lady's slipper
lady-slipper
ladies' slipper
slipper orchid | any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip, difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden |
common lady's-slipper
showy lady's-slipper
showy lady slipper
Cypripedium reginae
Cypripedium album | pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip |
ram's-head
ram's-head lady's slipper
Cypripedium arietinum | orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head |
yellow lady's slipper
yellow lady-slipper
Cypripedium calceolus
Cypripedium parviflorum | maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip, Europe, North America and Japan |
large yellow lady's slipper
Cypripedium calceolus pubescens | plant of eastern and central North America having slightly fragrant purple-marked greenish-yellow flowers |
California lady's slipper
Cypripedium californicum | often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California |
clustered lady's slipper
Cypripedium fasciculatum | clusters of several short stems each having broad leaves and - drooping brownish to greenish flowers with pouches mottled with purple, British Columbia to central California and northern Colorado |
mountain lady's slipper
Cypripedium montanum | leafy plant having a few stems in a clump with white and dull purple flower in each upper leaf axil, Alaska to northern California and Wyoming |
oncidium
dancing lady orchid
butterfly plant butterfly orchid | any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers, often grown as houseplants |
ladies' tresses
lady's tresses | an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having slender often twisted spikes of white flowers |
reed canary grass
gardener's garters
lady's laces
ribbon grass
Phalaris arundinacea | perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves, Europe and North America |
okra
gumbo
okra plant
lady's-finger
Abelmoschus esculentus
Hibiscus esculentus | tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews, sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus |
lady's-eardrop
ladies'-eardrop
lady's-eardrops
ladies'-eardrops
Fuchsia coccinea | erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers |
belladonna lily
naked lady Amaryllis belladonna | amaryllis of South Africa often cultivated for its fragrant white or rose flowers |
nodding onion
nodding wild onion
lady's leek
Allium cernuum | widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers |
lady tulip
candlestick tulip
Tulipa clusiana | Eurasian tulip with small flowers blotched at the base |