SLIPPER PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slipper plant mean? 

• SLIPPER PLANT (noun)
  The noun SLIPPER PLANT has 1 sense:

1. any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot-shaped bracts

  Familiarity information: SLIPPER PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLIPPER PLANT (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot-shaped bracts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

slipper plant; slipper spurge

Hypernyms ("slipper plant" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slipper plant"):

candelilla; Pedilanthus bracteatus; Pedilanthus pavonis (wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica)

Jew-bush; Jew bush; Jewbush; Pedilanthus tithymaloides; redbird cactus; redbird flower (low tropical American shrub having powerful emetic properties)

Holonyms ("slipper plant" is a member of...):

genus Pedilanthus; Pedilanthus (tropical American succulent shrubs)