dancing-girls

noun plural but singular or plural in construction

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

Word History

Etymology

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

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Rhymes for dancing-girls

• curls
• earls
• girls
• hurls
• pearls
• swirls
• whirls
• whorls
• schoolgirls