LADY'S SLIPPER • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Lady's slipper

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

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).

See images of 'Lady's slipper'

Etymology of 'Lady's slipper'

Click any word on the page to get its definition

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Text size: A A

Share |

"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

Read full book for free!

Words linked to "Lady's slipper" : genus Cypripedium, orchidaceous plant, Cypripedium acaule, yellow lady's slipper, orchid, Cypripedium album, Cypripedium californicum, common lady's-slipper, Cypripedium fasciculatum, Cypripedium calceolus, large yellow lady's slipper, ram's-head lady's slipper, lady-slipper, Cypripedium parviflorum, Cypripedium montanum, ladies' slipper, clustered lady's slipper, showy lady's-slipper, California lady's slipper, yellow lady-slipper, moccasin flower, slipper orchid, nerveroot, Cypripedium arietinum, Cypripedium reginae, Cypripedium, mountain lady's slipper, ram's-head, showy lady slipper