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 |
autumn crocus meadow saffron naked lady Colchicum autumnale | bulbous autumn-flowering herb with white, purple or lavender-and-white flowers, native to western and central Europe |