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CLUSTERED LADY'S SLIPPER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does clustered lady's slipper mean?
• CLUSTERED LADY'S SLIPPER (noun)
The noun CLUSTERED LADY'S SLIPPER has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: CLUSTERED LADY'S SLIPPER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CLUSTERED LADY'S SLIPPER (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
clustered lady's slipper; Cypripedium fasciculatum
Hypernyms ("clustered lady's slipper" is a kind of...):
ladies' slipper; lady's-slipper; lady's slipper; lady-slipper; lady slipper; slipper orchid (any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden)
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