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Definition of Cypripedium
1. Noun. Genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Orchidaceae, Orchid Family, Orchidaceae
Member holonyms: Cypripedia, Ladies' Slipper, Lady's Slipper, Lady-slipper, Slipper Orchid
Definition of Cypripedium
1. n. A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.
Definition of Cypripedium
1. Noun. Any member of the orchid genus ''Cypripedium''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cypripedium
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cypripedium
Literary usage of Cypripedium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"... Cypripedium. liy Dr. MAXWELL T. MASTERS, FRS In this note the author adverted
to so much of the normal structure of Orchids in general, ..."
2. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"In front of the lip is the column, composed of a single stamen, or in Cypripedium,
of two, with the rudiment of a third, coherent with, or borne upon the ..."
3. A Manual of organic materia medica: Being a Guide to Materia Medica of the by John Michael Maisch (1892)
"Cypripedium parviflorum yields the shorter and thinner rhizome with orange-brown
... Cypripedium pubescens.—Rhizome and rootlets, natural size. Cypripedium ..."
4. The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects by Charles Darwin (1904)
"Cypripedium differs much from all other Orchids—Labellum in the form of a slipper
with two small orifices by which insects can escape —Manner of ..."
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