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lady's slipper
Also 6 Our Ladies slipper, 8–9 ladies', lady slipper.
1. A common book-name for the orchidaceous plant Cypripedium Calceolus. Also applied occas. to the cultivated calceolaria, and the Bird's-foot Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cvii. 359 Ovr Ladies Shooe or Slipper, hath a thicke knobbed roote. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvii. 422 The Ladies Slipper..its singular, large hollow inflated nectary. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. II. 116 Lotus corniculatus..commonly called Lady's Slipper. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 266 One extremely rare British species, the Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium Calceolus). 1894Wilkins & Vivian Green bay tree II. 161 The boxes of geranium and lady-slipper in the window.
2. ? U.S. The garden-balsam, Impatiens balsamina (Cent. Dict.).
1836A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (ed. 5) xv. 101 The Impatiens of the garden is sometimes called Ladies'-slipper, sometimes Balsamine. 1874B. F. Taylor World on Wheels ii. iv. 220 The lady-slippers dance upon the air, while wild Sweet Williams stand admiring by. |