paphiopedilum

1. 1.

   horticulturally important genus of mainly terrestrial orchids including many hybrids; southeastern Asia and Indonesia to Philippines and Solomon Islands; Paphiopedilum species sometimes included in genus Cypripedium

   Synonymsgenus Paphiopedilum

   Broadermonocot genus

   Part ofOrchidaceae

Other forms of paphiopedilum

plural

paphiopedilums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about paphiopedilum

What does paphiopedilum mean?

paphiopedilum means "horticulturally important genus of mainly terrestrial orchids including many hybrids; southeastern Asia and Indonesia to Philippines and Solomon Islands; Paphiopedilum species sometimes included in genus Cypripedium".

How many syllables are in paphiopedilum?

paphiopedilum has 6 syllables: pa-phi-o-pe-di-lum. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for paphiopedilum?

Close synonyms include genus Paphiopedilum. 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 paphiopedilum a common word?

paphiopedilum 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.