cypripedin

cypriˈpedin Med.

[f. F. cypripède = Bot. L. Cypripedium Lady's slipper (Linnæus Gen. Pl. 1015), app. a corruption of Cypripodium, f. Gr. κύπρις Aphrodite + ποδίς shoe, πόδιον little foot.]

A brown powder prepared from the roots of Cypripedium pubescens, a North American orchid; used as an antispasmodic.

1863–72 in Watts Dict. Chem. II. 300.