Definition of "lady's-slipper" [lady's-slipper]

• Any orchid of the genus Cypripedium. (noun)
• The garden-balsam, Impatiens balsamina. The name has also been given locally to other plants. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really."
• "Take blue cohosh root, four ounces; lady's-slipper root and spikenard root, of each one ounce; sassafras bark (of root) and clover, of each half an ounce."
• "The most beautiful is the showy lady's-slipper (_Cypripedium spectabile_), whose large, pink and white flowers rival in beauty many of the choicest tropical orchids."