lady-slipper

Definitions of lady-slipper

1. noun

   any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
   synonyms: ladies' slipper, lady's slipper, slipper orchid

   types:

   Cypripedium acaule, moccasin flower, nerveroot

   once common rose pink woodland orchid of eastern North America

   Cypripedium album, Cypripedium reginae, common lady's-slipper, showy lady slipper, showy lady's-slipper

   pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip

   Cypripedium arietinum, ram's-head, ram's-head lady's slipper

   orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head

   Cypripedium calceolus, Cypripedium parviflorum, yellow lady's slipper, yellow lady-slipper

   maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip; Europe, North America and Japan

   California lady's slipper, Cypripedium californicum

   often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California

   Cypripedium fasciculatum, clustered lady's slipper

   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

   Cypripedium montanum, mountain lady's slipper

   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

   Cypripedium calceolus pubescens, large yellow lady's slipper

   plant of eastern and central North America having slightly fragrant purple-marked greenish-yellow flowers

   type of:

   orchid, orchidaceous plant

   any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors