Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like a slipper, as the pouchlike petal of the flower of the lady's slipper.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
calceiform .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Slipper-ahaped. See
calceiform .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
slipper -shaped
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of slipper-shaped blossoms
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Latin calceolus, diminutive of calceus, shoe, from calx, calc-, heel.]
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See calceolaria and calceiform.
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