moccasin

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The mechanism of their cross-fertilization is the same in all, with only slight modifications The most common of the group, the C. acaule_, most widely known as the moccasin-flower, whose large, nodding, pale crimson blooms we so irresistibly associate with the cool hemlock woods, will afford a good illustration The lip in all the cypripediums is more or less sac-like and inflated.

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  1. noun A soft leather slipper traditionally worn by certain Native American peoples.
  2. noun Footwear resembling such a slipper.
  3. noun A water moccasin.

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  • The dog trainer then had hauled him toward the fence to point out another moccasin, then another, and still another—nine in all. —  Hoot
  • But then one day he would move something in his drawer and see the envelope in which he kept the tattered fragment of a threadbare dress and the scrap of an ancient moccasin, and it would flood back to him, right clown to the smell of the cave, the taste of the water, the feel of the bones under his hand. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 06 - December 1999
  • A Special Forces trainee found dead this summer during a land navigation exercise in North Carolina was bitten by a poisonous water moccasin, also known as a cottonmouth, according to the Army. —  clickorlando.com - Local News
  • FORT BRAGG (AP) - The Army says a Special Forces trainee found dead this summer during a land navigation exercise in North Carolina was bitten by a poisonous water moccasin, also known as a cottonmouth. —  GoTriad Archives
  • Was he to wear the bearskin moccasin, and be tied to the fatal stake and burned for Indians' sport, and his poor family left to starve and perish amid the frosts of a long, dreary winter? —  The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca
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  1. Of Virginia Algonquian origin; akin to Powhatan mäkäsĭn, shoe, and Ojibwa makisin.

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  1. Also moccason, moccassin, mocassen, from Algonkin mawcahsun, makkasin, makasin; a shoe (see def.).
  2. Also moccason, mocassin (?); apparently short for moccasinsnake, which is then from moccasin + snake; but the reference to moccasin is not explained.
 

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