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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 Coloradoplay

  Familiarity information: CLUSTERED LADY'S SLIPPER used as a noun is very rare.


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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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