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noun
any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip
• Syn: ↑calceolaria
• Hypernyms: ↑flower
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Calceolaria
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun : a plant of the genus Calceolaria
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/slip"euhr werrt', -wawrt'/, n.
any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, having opposite or whorled leaves and slipper-shaped flowers.
[1810-20; SLIPPER1 + WORT2]
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slippˈerwort noun
A S American genus of flowering plants, calceolaria
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Main Entry: ↑slipper
Useful english dictionary. 2012.