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cypripedium

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Noun

cyp=ri=pe=di=um

WORDNET DICTIONARY

cypripedium(n = noun.plant) genus cypripedium - genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum; Array

is a kind of liliopsid genus, monocot genus

is a member of family orchidaceae, orchid family, orchidaceae

cypripedium, n. [NL., fr. Cypris Venus + pes, pedis, foot.].

A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper. [1913 Webster]

cypripedium, n. any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, esp. the lady's slipper.

Etymology

mod.L f. Gk Kupris Aphrodite + pedilon slipper

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