lady-slipper
- a variation of lady's-slipper.
Example Sentences
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About its roots you may find the lady-slipper and the dog-tooth violet, each in its season.
From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various
"Thunder!" said Jonathan; "don't you care more about the pink lady-slipper than about your blooming little sweet alyssum?"
From The Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge
Where 'round the feet the lady-smock And pearl-pale lady-slipper creep; White butterflies upon them rock Or seal-brown suck and sleep.
From Days and Dreams Poems by Cawein, Madison J.
You will know where to find the yellow violet, and the wake-robin, and the pink lady-slipper, and the scarlet sage, and the fringed gentian.
From The Blue Flower by Van Dyke, Henry
"I saw a lady-slipper bud almost out to-day," he said.
From The Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge
