CYPRIPEDIA

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Meaning:

A plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cypripedia" is a kind of...):

orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)

Holonyms ("cypripedia" is a member of...):

Cypripedium; genus Cypripedium (genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum)

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