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calceolate

[ kal-see-uh-leyt ]

adjective

Botany.
  1. having the form of a shoe or slipper, as the labellum of certain orchids.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of calceolate1

1860–65; < Latin calceol ( us ) a small shoe ( calce ( us ) a shoe + -olus -ole 1 ) + -ate 1
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Calceolate or Calceiform, slipper-shaped, like one petal of the Lady's Slipper.

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