What does showy lady's-slipper mean?

showy lady's-slipper means "pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip".

What is another word for showy lady's-slipper?

Close synonyms include common lady's-slipper, showy lady slipper, Cypripedium reginae, Cypripedium album. 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 showy lady's-slipper a common word?

showy 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.

showy lady's-slipper — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
Synonymscommon lady's-slipper showy lady slipper Cypripedium reginae Cypripedium album
Broaderlady's slipper

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What does showy lady's-slipper mean?: showy lady's-slipper means "pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip".

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