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Definition of Cypripedium arietinum
1. Noun. Orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head.
Generic synonyms: Ladies' Slipper, Lady's Slipper, Lady-slipper, Slipper Orchid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cypripedium Arietinum
Literary usage of Cypripedium arietinum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"cypripedium arietinum R. Br. Ram's-head Ladies' Slipper. (Fig. 1088.) Cypripedium
arietinum R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 5: 222. 1813. Stem 8'-i2' high, ..."
2. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1813)
"cypripedium arietinum. RAM'S-HEAD LADIES-SLIPPER. ... CYPRIPEDIUM arietinum¡ caule
... CYPRIPEDIUM arietinum. Brown in Hort. Kew. vol. 5. inédit. ..."
3. Our Native Orchids: A Series of Drawings from Nature of All the Species by William Hamilton Gibson, Helena Dewey Leeming Jelliffe (1905)
"I. RAMS-HEAD LADY S-SLIPPER cypripedium arietinum, R. Br. (Plate III.) THE rarest
of our native Cypripedium is the tiny Ram's- head, cypripedium arietinum. ..."
4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1902)
"cypripedium arietinum, R. Br. — accredited to Massachusetts— Amherst List.
cypripedium arietinum, R. Br. —accredited to Connecticut ..."
5. Bog-trotting for Orchids by Grace Greylock Niles (1904)
"rare little Ram's-Head (cypripedium arietinum), for which I have so hopefully
searched these woods in vain. I had found thus far all the representative ..."
6. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1902)
"The name ram's head moccasin flower (cypripedium arietinum) likewise arose from
this flower's resemblance to a sheep's or ram's head; the conical part of ..."
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