white lady's slipper

white lady's slipper

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  • white lady's-slipper — noun or white lady slipper : a No. American lady s slipper (Cypripedium candidum) having a greenish white flower striped purplish within …   Useful english dictionary

  • white lady-slipper — noun see white lady s slipper …   Useful english dictionary

  • showy lady's-slipper — noun pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip • Syn: ↑common lady s slipper, ↑showy lady slipper, ↑Cypripedium reginae, ↑Cypripedium album • Hypernyms: ↑lady s slipper, ↑lady slipper, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • California lady's slipper — noun often having many yellow green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California • Syn: ↑Cypripedium californicum • Hypernyms: ↑lady s slipper, ↑lady slipper, ↑ladies slipper, ↑slipper… …   Useful english dictionary

  • mountain lady's slipper — noun leafy plant having a few stems in a clump with 1 white and dull purple flower in each upper leaf axil; Alaska to northern California and Wyoming • Syn: ↑Cypripedium montanum • Hypernyms: ↑lady s slipper, ↑lady slipper, ↑ladies slipper,… …   Useful english dictionary

  • ram's-head lady's slipper — noun orchid of northern North America having a brownish green flower and red and white lip suggestive of a ram s head • Syn: ↑ram s head, ↑Cypripedium arietinum • Hypernyms: ↑lady s slipper, ↑lady slipper, ↑ladies slipper, ↑slipper orchid …   Useful english dictionary

  • Lady Slipper Drive — The Lady Slipper Drive is a former scenic drive located in Prince County, Prince Edward Island.The Lady Slipper Drive comprised numerous routes along coastal sections of Prince County and measured approximately 300 km in length. It was replaced… …   Wikipedia

  • Lady — n. (pl. ies) 1 a a woman regarded as being of superior social status or as having the refined manners associated with this (cf. GENTLEMAN). b (Lady) a title used by peeresses, female relatives of peers, the wives and widows of knights, etc. 2… …   Useful english dictionary

  • lady — n. (pl. ies) 1 a a woman regarded as being of superior social status or as having the refined manners associated with this (cf. GENTLEMAN). b (Lady) a title used by peeresses, female relatives of peers, the wives and widows of knights, etc. 2… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Slipper — A slipper, also called a houseshoe, is a soft and lightweight indoor type of casual footwear.Domestic Footwear CustomsThe word is recorded in English in 1478, deriving from the much older verb to slip, the notion being of footwear that is slipped …   Wikipedia

  • lady's looking-glass — Venus Ve nus, n. [L. Venus, eris, the goddess of love, the planet Venus.] 1. (Class. Myth.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified. [1913 Webster] 2. (Anat.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English


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