Definition of Slipper plant

1. Noun. Any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot-shaped bracts.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Slipper Plant

slipped capital femoral epiphysis
slipped disc
slipped discs
slipped disk
slipped disks
slipped hernia
slipped tendon
slipped tendon disease
slipper
slipper-orchid
slipper animalcule
slipper chair
slipper lobster
slipper lobsters
slipper orchid
slipper plant (current term)
slipper spurge
slippered
slipperier
slipperiest
slipperily
slipperiness
slipperinesses
slippering
slipperings
slipperless
slipperlike
slipperness
slippers
slipperwort

Literary usage of Slipper plant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"slipper plant. BIRD CACTUS. REDBIRD CACTUS. SLIPPER SPURGE. JEW BUSH. Low tender cactus-like shrubs, grown in collections of succulents. ..."

2. The Bermuda Islands: An Account of Their Scenery, Climate, Productions by Addison Emery Verrill (1902)
"Native of South America. Other species are cultivated less frequently, as J. podagrica Hook, and J. hastata Jacq. slipper plant; Arsenic Plant. ..."

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