| NOUN | plant | Paphiopedilum, genus Paphiopedilum | horticulturally important genus of mainly terrestrial orchids including many hybrids |
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| Meaning | horticulturally important genus of mainly terrestrial orchids including many hybrids; southeastern Asia and Indonesia to Philippines and Solomon ... / Solomon Islands; Paphiopedilum species sometimes included in genus Cypripedium. | |
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| Synonym | genus Paphiopedilum | |
| Member of | Orchidaceae, family Orchidaceae, orchid family | enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks / rootstocks and unusual flowers |
| Members | Venus' slipper, Venus's slipper, Venus's shoe | Any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips |
| Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
| Spanish | genus paphiopedilum, paphiopedilum | |
| Catalan | genus paphiopedilum, paphiopedilum, Paphiopedilum | |
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