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A flower.

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Usage examples (10)
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • You could have knocked me down with a lady's-slipper.
  • In some moods, at least, I go with the partridge-berry vine and the lady's-slipper.
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