English > lady slipper: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden. |
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| Synonyms | lady's slipper, lady's-slipper, lady-slipper, ladies' slipper, slipper orchid |
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| Member of | Cypripedium, genus Cypripedium | genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids |
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| Narrower | 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 |
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| 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 |
| common lady's-slipper, showy lady's-slipper, showy lady slipper, Cypripedium reginae, Cypripedium album | pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip |
| moccasin flower, nerveroot, Cypripedium acaule | Once common rose pink woodland orchid of eastern North America |
| mountain lady's slipper, Cypripedium montanum | leafy plant having a few stems in a clump with 1 white and dull purple flower in each upper leaf axil |
| ram's-head, ram's-head lady's slipper, Cypripedium arietinum | orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head |
| yellow lady's slipper, yellow lady-slipper, Cypripedium calceolus, Cypripedium parviflorum | maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip |
| Broader | orchid, orchidaceous plant | Any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors |
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