lady's-slipper — ONAD

lady's-slipper (also lady's slipper)

▸ noun an orchid of north temperate regions, the flower of which has a lip that is a conspicuous slipper-shaped pouch.

Genus Cypripedium, family Orchidaceae: several species, in particular the large-pouched showy lady's-slipper (C. reginae), with bicolored (white and rose) flowers, and the pink lady's-slipper (C. acaule), with a deeply cleft dark pink or (rarely) white pouch.