Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Shaped like a slipper, as the pouchlike petal of the flower of the lady's slipper.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as calceiform.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Slipper-ahaped. See calceiform.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective slipper-shaped

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of slipper-shaped blossoms

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin calceolus, diminutive of calceus, shoe, from calx, calc-, heel.]

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See calceolaria and calceiform.

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