NOUN
- genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum
How To Use Cypripedium In A Sentence
- They are similar to our native Ohio cypripediums and you may consider the paphiopedilums to be the tropical cousins to the cypripediums.
- Such, with slight modifications, is the plan evolved by the whole cypripedium tribe. My Studio Neighbors
- The "column" (B) in the cypripedium is very distinctive, and from the front view is very non-committal. My Studio Neighbors
- The genus Cypripedium comprises 49 species, which are widely distributed throughout Northern America, Eastern Asia and Europe.
- Here is the haunt of the lady-slipper, (_cypripedium_,) a shy, rare flower, like a little sack delicately veined, with a faint musky scent, and large-flapped leaves shading its flower. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
- In 1940 she acquired 25 hybrid cypripediums from England to save them from the war.
- The large yellow cypripedium has a peculiar, heavy, oily odor. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
- The most beautiful is the showy lady's-slipper (_Cypripedium spectabile_), whose large, pink and white flowers rival in beauty many of the choicest tropical orchids. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
- The last nest of this bird I found was while in quest of the pink cypripedium. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs
- The cypripediums alone possess glutinous pollen grains, and with them the peculiar mechanical construction requisite to the accomplishment of fertilisation.