cypripedium : Idioms & Phrases

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cypripedium acaule

  • noun once common rose pink woodland orchid of eastern North America
    moccasin flower; nerveroot.
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cypripedium album

  • noun pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
    common lady's-slipper; showy lady slipper; Cypripedium album; showy lady's-slipper.
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cypripedium arietinum

  • noun orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head
    ram's-head; ram's-head lady's slipper.
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cypripedium calceolus

  • noun maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip; Europe, North America and Japan
    Cypripedium calceolus; yellow lady's slipper; yellow lady-slipper.
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cypripedium calceolus pubescens

  • noun plant of eastern and central North America having slightly fragrant purple-marked greenish-yellow flowers
    large yellow lady's slipper.
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cypripedium californicum

  • noun often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California
    California lady's slipper.
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cypripedium fasciculatum

  • noun 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
    clustered lady's slipper.
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cypripedium montanum

  • noun 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
    mountain lady's slipper.
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cypripedium parviflorum

  • noun maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip; Europe, North America and Japan
    Cypripedium calceolus; yellow lady's slipper; yellow lady-slipper.
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cypripedium reginae

  • noun pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
    common lady's-slipper; showy lady slipper; Cypripedium album; showy lady's-slipper.
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genus cypripedium

  • noun genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum
    Cypripedium.
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