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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
twayblade
 
SYLLABICATION:tway·blade
PRONUNCIATION:  twbld
NOUN: Any of numerous small terrestrial orchids of the genera Liparis and Listera, having usually two basal leaves and a terminal cluster of greenish or purplish flowers.
ETYMOLOGY:Obsolete tway, two (short for Middle English twaine; see twain) + blade (translation of Medieval Latin bifolium, two-leaf).
 
 
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