WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

genus Paphiopedilum
    n 1: horticulturally important genus of mainly terrestrial
         orchids including many hybrids; southeastern Asia and
         Indonesia to Philippines and Solomon Islands; Paphiopedilum
         species sometimes included in genus Cypripedium [syn:
         Paphiopedilum, genus Paphiopedilum]