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GENUS CYPRIPEDIUM

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cypripedium mean?

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

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

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

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS 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 ("genus 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 "genus Cypripedium"):

cypripedia (a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium)

ladies' slipper; lady's 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 ("genus 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)

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