CYPRIPEDIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cypripedium mean? 

• CYPRIPEDIUM (noun)
  The noun CYPRIPEDIUM has 1 sense:

1. genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum

  Familiarity information: CYPRIPEDIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYPRIPEDIUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cypripedium; genus Cypripedium

Hypernyms ("Cypripedium" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Cypripedium"):

cypripedia (a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium)

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)

Holonyms ("Cypripedium" is a member of...):

family Orchidaceae; orchid family; Orchidaceae (enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers)