CYPRIPEDIUM CALIFORNICUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cypripedium californicum mean? 

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

1. often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYPRIPEDIUM CALIFORNICUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

California lady's slipper; Cypripedium californicum

Hypernyms ("Cypripedium californicum" 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)