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LADIES' SLIPPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
Synonyms:
ladies' slipper; lady's-slipper; lady's slipper; lady-slipper; lady slipper; slipper orchid
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ladies' slipper" is a kind of...):
orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ladies' slipper"):
Cypripedium acaule; moccasin flower; nerveroot (once common rose pink woodland orchid of eastern North America)
common lady's-slipper; Cypripedium album; Cypripedium reginae; showy lady's-slipper; showy lady slipper (pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip)
Cypripedium arietinum; ram's-head; ram's-head lady's slipper (orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head)
Cypripedium calceolus; Cypripedium parviflorum; yellow lady's slipper; yellow lady-slipper (maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip; Europe, North America and Japan)
California lady's slipper; Cypripedium californicum (often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California)
clustered lady's slipper; Cypripedium fasciculatum (clusters of several short stems each having 2 broad leaves and 2-4 drooping brownish to greenish flowers with pouches mottled with purple; British Columbia to central California and northern Colorado)
Cypripedium montanum; mountain lady's slipper (leafy plant having a few stems in a clump with 1 white and dull purple flower in each upper leaf axil; Alaska to northern California and Wyoming)
Holonyms ("ladies' slipper" is a member of...):
Cypripedium; genus Cypripedium (genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum)
