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dancing-girls

noun plural but singular or plural in construction

Definition of dancing-girls 

: an East Indian herb (Mantisia saltatoria) sometimes cultivated in greenhouses for its purple-and-yellow flowers

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History and Etymology for dancing-girls

so called from the fancied resemblance of the flowers to ballet dancers

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