slipper


Definition: Meaning of, slipper in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈslɪpə /

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Singular Plural
slipper slippers
[countable]
  1. a light soft shoe that you wear at home
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slipper used in phrases

  • California lady's slipper (noun)
    1. often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California
  • Venus' slipper (noun)
    1. any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
  • Venus's slipper (noun)
    1. any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
  • carpet slipper (noun)
    1. a type of soft shoe that you wear in your house [=  slipper]
  • clustered lady's slipper (noun)
    1. clusters of several short stems each having 2 broad leaves and 2-4 drooping brownish to greenish flowers with pouches mottled with purple; British Columbia to central California and northern Colorado
  • common lady's-slipper (noun)
    1. pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
  • fairy-slipper (noun)
    1. rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf
  • ladies' slipper (noun)
    1. any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
  • lady's slipper (noun)
    1. any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
  • lady-slipper (noun)
    1. any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
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