Also 6 Our Ladies slipper, 8–9 ladies’, lady slipper.

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  1.  A common book-name for the orchidaceous plant Cypripedium Calceolus. Also applied occas. to the cultivated calceolaria, and the Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus.

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1597.  Gerarde, Herbal, II. cvii. 359. Ovr Ladies Shooe or Slipper, hath a thicke knobbed roote.

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1794.  Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxvii. 422. The Ladies Slipper … its singular, large hollow inflated nectary.

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1861.  Miss Pratt, Flower. Pl., II. 116. Lotus corniculatus … commonly called Lady’s Slipper.

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1872.  Oliver, Elem. Bot., II. 266. One extremely rare British species, the Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium Calceolus).

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1894.  Wilkins & Vivian, Green Bay Tree, II. 161. The boxes of geranium and lady-slipper in the window.

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  2.  ? U.S. The garden-balsam, Impatiens balsamina (Cent. Dict.).

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