ladies' slipper

Questions about ladies' slipper

What does ladies' slipper mean?

ladies' slipper means "any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden".

What is another word for ladies' slipper?

Close synonyms include lady's slipper, lady's-slipper, lady-slipper, lady slipper, slipper orchid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ladies' slipper a common word?

ladies' slipper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.