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    GENUS CYPRIPEDIUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilumplay

    Synonyms:

    Cypripedium; genus Cypripedium

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Cypripedium" is a kind of...):

    liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Cypripedium"):

    cypripedia (a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium)

    ladies' slipper; lady's-slipper; lady's slipper; lady-slipper; lady slipper; slipper orchid (any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden)

    Holonyms ("genus Cypripedium" is a member of...):

    family Orchidaceae; orchid family; Orchidaceae (enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers)

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