Cypripedium


Definition: Meaning of, Cypripedium in English to English dictionary.

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  1. genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum
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Cypripedium used in phrases

  • Cypripedium acaule (noun)
    1. once common rose pink woodland orchid of eastern North America
  • Cypripedium album (noun)
    1. pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
  • Cypripedium arietinum (noun)
    1. orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head
  • Cypripedium calceolus (noun)
    1. maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip; Europe, North America and Japan
  • Cypripedium calceolus pubescens (noun)
    1. plant of eastern and central North America having slightly fragrant purple-marked greenish-yellow flowers
  • Cypripedium californicum (noun)
    1. often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California
  • Cypripedium fasciculatum (noun)
    1. 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 (noun)
    1. 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 parviflorum (noun)
    1. maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip; Europe, North America and Japan
  • Cypripedium reginae (noun)
    1. pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
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