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Definition of Slipper orchid
1. Noun. Any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden.
Generic synonyms: Orchid, Orchidaceous Plant
Group relationships: Cypripedium, Genus Cypripedium
Specialized synonyms: Cypripedium Acaule, Moccasin Flower, Nerveroot, Common Lady's-slipper, Cypripedium Album, Cypripedium Reginae, Showy Lady Slipper, Showy Lady's-slipper, Cypripedium Arietinum, Ram's-head, Ram's-head Lady's Slipper, Cypripedium Calceolus, Cypripedium Parviflorum, Yellow Lady's Slipper, Yellow Lady-slipper, California Lady's Slipper, Cypripedium Californicum, Clustered Lady's Slipper, Cypripedium Fasciculatum, Cypripedium Montanum, Mountain Lady's Slipper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slipper Orchid
Literary usage of Slipper orchid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin by Missouri botanical garden (1913)
"The slipper orchid belonging to the genus Cypripedium, differs from the preceding
form in that it possesses two fertile stamens instead of one. ..."
2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver, Mary Frances (Ewart) Macdonald, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"The transference of pollen to insects takes place in the Lady's Slipper
Orchid (Cypripedium) in a manner altogether peculiar. ..."
3. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Horticultural Society of London (1886)
"They are the " Lady's Slipper " Orchid of gardens, and the most beautiful North
American species (C. spectabile) is called the " Mocassin Flower. ..."
4. In the Trades, the Tropics, & the Roaring Forties by Annie Brassey (1885)
"... with phalaenopsis of various kinds, specimens of the ' Holy- Ghost' orchid,
with the little dove brooding in the centre, and the brown slipper-orchid, ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1903)
"It is in this association that the almost extinct Toady's slipper orchid occurs.
The following plants are representative ..."
6. Philopolis by Will Sparks (1910)
"... the Butterfly Orchid ; Cypripedium, the Lady slipper orchid ; and many others
too numerous to mention. The habit of the Orchid is almost as varied as ..."
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