Cypripedium Definition

sĭprĭ-pēdē-əm
cypripedium, cypripediums
noun
Any of a genus (Cypripedium) of soil-rooted orchids of the North Temperate Zone, with flat leaves and white, yellow, or rosy-purple flowers, each having a pouchlike lip petal; lady-slipper.
Webster's New World
Any of various cultivated species (genus Paphiopedilum) of tropical orchids with fleshy, folded leaves and green, yellow, or brown-purple flowers of waxy texture.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • genus Cypripedium

Other Word Forms of Cypripedium

Noun

Singular:
cypripedium
Plural:
cypripediums

Origin of Cypripedium

  • New Latin Cypripedium genus name Late Latin Cypris Venus (from Greek Kupris Aphrodite) (from Kupros , Cyprus, legendary birthplace of Aphrodite) New Latin -pedium (alteration of Greek pedilon sandal ped- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the genus name.

    From Wiktionary

Cypripedium Sentence Examples

  • In place of the six stamens we commonly find but one (two in Cypripedium), and that one is raised together with the stigmatic surfaces on an elongation of the floral axis known as the "column."

  • It contains two small genera of tropical Asia and Africa with almost regular flowers, and the large genus Cypripedium containing about 80 species in the north-temperate zone and tropical Asia and America.

  • In Cypripedium two stamens are present, one on each side of the column instead of one only at the top, as in the group Monandreae, to which belong the remaining genera in which also only two stigmas are fertile.

  • In Cypripedium two of the outer stamens are wanting; the third - the one, that is, which corresponds to the single fertile stamen in the Monandreae - forms a large sterile structure or staminode; the two lateral ones of the inner series are present, the third being undeveloped.

  • This arrangement may be understood by reference to the following diagram, representing the relative position of the stamens in orchids generally and in Cypripedium.

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