California lady's slipper

Definitions of California lady's slipper
  1. noun
    often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California
    synonyms: Cypripedium californicum
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    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
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