slipper : Idioms & Phrases

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babies' slippers

  • noun European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America
    bird's foot clover; Lotus corniculatus; bacon and eggs; bird's foot trefoil.
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california lady's slipper

  • noun often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California
    Cypripedium californicum.
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carpet slipper

  • noun low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors
    slipper.
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clustered lady's slipper

  • noun clusters of several short stems each having 2 broad leaves and 2-4 drooping brownish to greenish flowers with pouches mottled with purple; British Columbia to central California and northern Colorado
    Cypripedium fasciculatum.
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common lady's-slipper

  • noun pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
    common lady's-slipper; Cypripedium reginae; showy lady slipper; Cypripedium album.
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fairy-slipper

  • noun rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf
    calypso; Calypso bulbosa.
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ladies' slipper

  • noun any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
    lady-slipper; ladies' slipper; lady's slipper.
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lady's slipper

  • noun any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
    lady-slipper; ladies' slipper; lady's slipper.
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La"dy's slip"per
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  1. (Bot.) Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).
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lady-slipper

  • noun any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
    lady-slipper; ladies' slipper; lady's slipper.
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large yellow lady's slipper

  • noun plant of eastern and central North America having slightly fragrant purple-marked greenish-yellow flowers
    Cypripedium calceolus pubescens.
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mountain lady's slipper

  • noun leafy plant having a few stems in a clump with 1 white and dull purple flower in each upper leaf axil; Alaska to northern California and Wyoming
    Cypripedium montanum.
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ram's-head lady's slipper

  • noun orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head
    Cypripedium arietinum; ram's-head.
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showy lady slipper

  • noun pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
    common lady's-slipper; Cypripedium reginae; showy lady slipper; Cypripedium album.
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showy lady's-slipper

  • noun pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
    common lady's-slipper; Cypripedium reginae; showy lady slipper; Cypripedium album.
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Slipper animalcule

  • (Zoöl.), a ciliated infusorian of the genus Paramecium.
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Slipper flower

  • .(Bot.) Slipperwort.
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Slipper limpet, ∨ Slipper shell

  • (Zoöl.), a boat shell.
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slipper orchid

  • noun any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
    lady-slipper; ladies' slipper; lady's slipper.
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slipper plant

  • noun any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot-shaped bracts
    slipper plant.
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slipper spurge

  • noun any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot-shaped bracts
    slipper plant.
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slipper-shaped

  • adjective satellite shaped in the form of a slipper
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venus' slipper

  • noun any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
    Venus' slipper; Venus's shoe.
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Venus's slipper

  • noun any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
    Venus' slipper; Venus's shoe.
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  • . (a) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Cypripedium. See Lady's slipper. (b) (Zoöl.) Any heteropod shell of the genus Carinaria. See Carinaria.
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yellow lady's slipper

  • noun maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip; Europe, North America and Japan
    Cypripedium calceolus; yellow lady's slipper; Cypripedium parviflorum.
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yellow lady-slipper

  • noun maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip; Europe, North America and Japan
    Cypripedium calceolus; yellow lady's slipper; Cypripedium parviflorum.
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