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    LADY SLIPPER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the gardenplay

    Synonyms:

    ladies' slipper; lady's-slipper; lady's slipper; lady-slipper; lady slipper; slipper orchid

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("lady 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 "lady 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 ("lady 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)

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