elegance
- n a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste
she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility - n a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics)
the simplicity and elegance of his invention
elegant brodiaea
- n brodiaea having an umbel of violet or blue-violet flowers atop a leafless stalk; northern Oregon to southern California
elegant cat's ears
- n small plant with slender bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears; southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon to Montana
elegant habenaria
- n slender inland rein orchid similar to coastal rein orchid but with pale greenish-yellow flowers
elegiac stanza
- n a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme