Med. [f. F. cypripède = Bot.L. Cypripedium Lady’s slipper (Linnæus Gen. Pl. 1015), app. a corruption of Cypripodium, f. Gr. Κύπρις Aphrodite + ποδίς shoe, πόδιον little foot.]
A brown powder prepared from the roots of Cypripedium pubescens, a North American orchid; used as an antispasmodic.
1863–72. in Watts, Dict. Chem., II. 300.
