noun
orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head
• Hypernyms: ↑lady's slipper, ↑lady-slipper, ↑ladies' slipper, ↑slipper orchid
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun also ram's-head ; lady's slipper (plural ram's-heads) : an orchid (Cypripedium arietinum) of northern No. America having a brownish green flower with a red-and-white veiny lip suggestive of a ram's head
Useful english dictionary. 2012.