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Lady's slipper   /lˈeɪdiz slˈɪpər/   Listen
noun
Lady's slipper  n.  (Bot.) Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).






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"Lady's slipper" Quotes from Famous Books



... permitted thoroughfare thither. I imagined that those were her buttercups that we gathered when we got over the wall, and held under each other's chin, to see, by the reflection, who was fond of butter; and surely the yellow toadflax (we called it "lady's slipper") that grew in the rock-crevices was hers, for we ...
— A New England Girlhood • Lucy Larcom



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