moccasin flower

He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).
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Her very first performance onstage came at the age of 4, when she cameoed as a dancing flower in the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
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There are lovingly tended flower beds along each road and surrounding every barrack.
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I decorated with marigolds, which are considered the flower of the dead.
New Orleans’ Carnivalesque Day of the Dead|Jason Berry|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST

She was obsessed with the flower-printed, scented toilet paper.
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Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
The flower stems on the American varieties are much longer than those of European tobaccos and also larger.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
The print of steel-rimmed hoofs showed in the soft loam as plainly as a moccasin-track in virgin snow.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Black Sheep retreated to the nursery and read "Cometh up as a Flower" with deep and uncomprehending interest.
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Her face was mild and pale; but it was the transparent hue of the virgin flower of spring, clad in her veiling leaves.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter

British Dictionary definitions for moccasin flower

moccasin flower

noun

any of several North American orchids of the genus Cypripedium with a pink solitary flowerSee also lady's-slipper, cypripedium (def. 1)

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