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CALCEOLATE

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cal⋅ce⋅o⋅late

  [kal-see-uh-leyt]
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–adjective Botany.
having the form of a shoe or slipper, as the labellum of certain orchids.
Origin:
1860–65; < L calceol(us) a small shoe (calce(us) a shoe + -olus -ole 1 ) + -ate 1
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cal·ce·o·late   (kāl'sē-ə-lāt')   
adj.  Shaped like a slipper, as the pouchlike petal of the flower of the lady's slipper.

[From Latin calceolus, diminutive of calceus, shoe, from calx, calc-, heel.]
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