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- noun Plural form of
cypripedium .
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Examples
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These lady slippers are not the native hardy cypripediums, or something close to that name, they are paphiopedilum, a tropical native.
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The first summer in the new place, a clump of cypripediums came up by the irrigating ditch at the bottom of the lawn.
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The first summer in the new place, a clump of cypripediums came up by the irrigating ditch at the bottom of the lawn.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901
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The next great flower wonders on which we lavished admiration, not only for beauty of color and size, but for their curious shapes, were the cypripediums, called "lady's-slippers" or "Indian moccasins."
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir 1876
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The lip in all the cypripediums is more or less sac-like and inflated.
My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873
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We now have the whole body of cypripediums to choose from, and may reject the calceolous.
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