lady-slipper
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1. any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | orchid, orchidaceous plant, |
| definition | : | any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | clustered lady's slipper, cypripedium fasciculatum, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cypripedium montanum, mountain lady's slipper, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | cypripedium, genus cypripedium, |
| definition | : | genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum (noun.plant) |
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