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    SLIPPER PLANT

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot-shaped bractsplay

    Synonyms:

    slipper plant; slipper spurge

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("slipper plant" is a kind of...):

    bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slipper plant"):

    candelilla; Pedilanthus bracteatus; Pedilanthus pavonis (wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica)

    Jew-bush; Jew bush; Jewbush; Pedilanthus tithymaloides; redbird cactus; redbird flower (low tropical American shrub having powerful emetic properties)

    Holonyms ("slipper plant" is a member of...):

    genus Pedilanthus; Pedilanthus (tropical American succulent shrubs)

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