lady's-slipper

Questions about lady's-slipper

What does lady's-slipper mean?

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

How many syllables are in lady's-slipper?

lady's-slipper has 4 syllables and divides as la-dy's--slip-per under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lady's-slipper?

Close synonyms include lady's slipper, lady-slipper, lady slipper, ladies' 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 lady's-slipper a common word?

lady's-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.