Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cypripedium

1 sense of cypripedium

Sense 1
Cypripedium, genus Cypripedium -- (genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum)
       => monocot genus, liliopsid genus -- (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)