Definition of Cypripedium arietinum

1. Noun. Orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cypripedium Arietinum

Cypraeidae
Cyprians
Cyprinodontidae
Cyprinus
Cyprinus carpio
Cypriot
Cypriot Arabic
Cypriot monetary unit
Cypriot pound
Cypriote
Cypriots
Cypripedium
Cypripedium acaule
Cypripedium album
Cypripedium arietinum (current term)
Cypripedium calceolus
Cypripedium calceolus pubescens
Cypripedium californicum
Cypripedium fasciculatum
Cypripedium montanum
Cypripedium parviflorum
Cypripedium reginae
Cypro-
Cyprus cedar
Cyr.
Cyrenaic
Cyrenaica
Cyrenaicism

Literary usage of Cypripedium arietinum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"Cypripedium arietinum R. Br. Ram's-head Ladies' Slipper. (Fig. 1088.) Cypripedium arietinum R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 5: 222. 1813. Stem 8'-i2' high, ..."

2. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1813)
"Cypripedium arietinum. RAM'S-HEAD LADIES-SLIPPER. ... CYPRIPEDIUM arietinum¡ caule ... CYPRIPEDIUM arietinum. Brown in Hort. Kew. vol. 5. inédit. ..."

3. Our Native Orchids: A Series of Drawings from Nature of All the Species by William Hamilton Gibson, Helena Dewey Leeming Jelliffe (1905)
"I. RAMS-HEAD LADY S-SLIPPER Cypripedium arietinum, R. Br. (Plate III.) THE rarest of our native Cypripedium is the tiny Ram's- head, Cypripedium arietinum. ..."

4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1902)
"Cypripedium arietinum, R. Br. — accredited to Massachusetts— Amherst List. Cypripedium arietinum, R. Br. —accredited to Connecticut ..."

5. Bog-trotting for Orchids by Grace Greylock Niles (1904)
"rare little Ram's-Head (Cypripedium arietinum), for which I have so hopefully searched these woods in vain. I had found thus far all the representative ..."

6. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1902)
"The name ram's head moccasin flower (Cypripedium arietinum) likewise arose from this flower's resemblance to a sheep's or ram's head; the conical part of ..."

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