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Lady's slipper   Listen
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Lady's slipper  n.  (Bot.) Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).





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"Lady's slipper" Quotes from Famous Books



... permitted thoroughfare thither. I imagined that those were her buttercups that we gathered when we got over the wall, and held under each other's chin, to see, by the reflection, who was fond of butter; and surely the yellow toadflax (we called it "lady's slipper") that grew in the rock-crevices was hers, for we ...
— A New England Girlhood • Lucy Larcom


Words linked to "Lady's slipper" :   genus Cypripedium, orchidaceous plant, Cypripedium acaule, yellow lady's slipper, orchid, Cypripedium album, Cypripedium californicum, common lady's-slipper, Cypripedium fasciculatum, Cypripedium calceolus, large yellow lady's slipper, ram's-head lady's slipper, lady-slipper, Cypripedium parviflorum, Cypripedium montanum, ladies' slipper, clustered lady's slipper, showy lady's-slipper, California lady's slipper, yellow lady-slipper, moccasin flower, slipper orchid, nerveroot, Cypripedium arietinum, Cypripedium reginae, Cypripedium, mountain lady's slipper, ram's-head, showy lady slipper


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