- slipper-shaped
- adjectiveshaped in the form of a slipper• Similar to: ↑formed
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slipper plant — noun any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot shaped bracts • Syn: ↑slipper spurge • Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush • Hyponyms: ↑candelilla, ↑Pedilanthus bracteatus, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
slipper bath — noun 1. A partially covered bath, shaped like a slipper 2. (esp formerly) one of a number of single baths for hire at public baths • • • Main Entry: ↑slipper … Useful english dictionary
Slipper — A slipper, also called a houseshoe, is a soft and lightweight indoor type of casual footwear.Domestic Footwear CustomsThe word is recorded in English in 1478, deriving from the much older verb to slip, the notion being of footwear that is slipped … Wikipedia
slipper animalcule — noun Etymology: slipper (II) : a ciliated protozoan of the genus Paramecium (especially P. caudatum) that is shaped somewhat like a slipper * * * slipper animalcule see ↑Paramecium • • • Main Entry: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
slipper — n. & v. n. 1 a light loose comfortable indoor shoe. 2 a light slip on shoe for dancing etc. v.tr. beat or strike with a slipper. Phrases and idioms: slipper bath Brit. a bath shaped like a slipper, with a covered end. Derivatives: slippered adj … Useful english dictionary
slipper — Shoe Shoe (sh[=oo]), n.; pl. {Shoes} (sh[=oo]z), formerly {Shoon} (sh[=oo]n), now provincial. [OE. sho, scho, AS. sc[=o]h, sce[ o]h; akin to OFries. sk[=o], OS. sk[=o]h, D. schoe, schoen, G. schuh, OHG. scuoh, Icel. sk[=o]r, Dan. & Sw. sko, Goth … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
slipper spurge — noun any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot shaped bracts • Syn: ↑slipper plant • Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush • Hyponyms: ↑candelilla, ↑Pedilanthus bracteatus, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Lady's Slipper — Taxobox name = Lady s Slipper Orchids image width = 250px image caption = An orchid of the genus Paphiopedilum regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Liliopsida ordo = Asparagales familia = Orchidaceae subfamilia = Cypripedioideae… … Wikipedia
lady's slipper — Any member of several genera of orchids in which the lip of the flower is slipper shaped. The genus Cypripedium has about 50 temperate and subtropical species. Two well known species, the yellow lady s slipper (C. calceolus) and the pink lady s… … Universalium
lady's slipper — noun A variety of orchid in the subfamily Cypripedioideae distinguished by their slipper shaped pouches which trap insects to improve pollination rates. Syn: slipper orchid … Wiktionary
