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yellow lady's-slipper

noun

  1. a showy orchid, Cypripedium calceolus, of eastern North America, having purple-tinged yellow flowers with an inflated lip petal.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of yellow lady's-slipper1

An Americanism dating back to 1730–40
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Later in the season yellow is frequently accompanied with fragrance, as in the evening primrose, the yellow lady's-slipper, horned bladderwort, and others.

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Yellow Lady's-Slipper Growing in bogs and low woods from Maine to Minnesota and Washington, southward to Georgia and Missouri, there is a sweet-scented, little yellow-and-brown flower called the yellow lady's-slipper, the plant of which is said to have the same effect when handled as poison-ivy.

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Like the ivy, the yellow lady's-slipper does not poison every one.

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