单词 | lady-slipper |
释义 | lady-slipper (once / 695254 pages) n WORD FAMILY lady-slipper USAGE EXAMPLES"Well," he said, gazing at her like he couldn't look enough, "would you rather have found a lady-slipper?" Bonner, Geraldine, Miss Maitland Private Secretary(2011) "I saw a lady-slipper bud almost out to-day," he said. Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge, The Jonathan Papers(2010) About its roots you may find the lady-slipper and the dog-tooth violet, each in its season. Various, Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885(2010) n any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden Syn|Hypo|Hyper ladies' slipper, lady's slipper, slipper orchid 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-slipperpale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip Cypripedium arietinum, ram's-head, ram's-head lady's slipperorchid 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-slippermaroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip; Europe, North America and Japan California lady's slipper, Cypripedium californicumoften having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California Cypripedium fasciculatum, clustered lady's slipperclusters 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 slipperleafy 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 slipperplant of eastern and central North America having slightly fragrant purple-marked greenish-yellow flowers orchid, orchidaceous plant any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors |
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