cypripedium
Noun
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Genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers;
Sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum (synset 112076308)is a type of: liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seedmember holonym:- cypripedia - a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium
- ladies' slipper, lady slipper, lady's slipper, lady's-slipper, lady-slipper, slipper orchid - any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
belongs to: family orchidaceae, orchid family, orchidaceae - enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowerssame as: genus cypripedium
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