cypripedium(n = noun.plant) genus cypripedium - genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum;
is a kind of liliopsid genus, monocot genus
is a member of family orchidaceae, orchid family, orchidaceae
A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper. [1913 Webster]
cypripedium, n. any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, esp. the lady's slipper.
Etymology:
mod.L f. Gk Kupris Aphrodite + pedilon slipper
cypripedium acaule, cypripedium album, cypripedium arietinum, cypripedium calceolus, cypripedium calceolus pubescens, cypripedium californicum, cypripedium fasciculatum, cypripedium montanum, cypripedium parviflorum, cypripedium reginae, genus cypripedium