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snakehead
(encz) | snakehead, n: |
Snakehead
(gcide) | Snakehead \Snake"head`\, n.
1. A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat
rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was
sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip
over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
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2. (Bot.)
(a) The turtlehead.
(b) The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under
Guinea.
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snakehead
(gcide) | Turtlehead \Tur"tle*head`\ (t[^u]r"t'l-h[e^]d`), n. (Bot.)
An American perennial herb (Chelone glabra) having white
flowers shaped like the head of a turtle. Called also
snakehead, shell flower, and balmony.
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snakehead
(gcide) | Chelone \Che*lo"ne\, n. [Gr. chelw`nh a tortoise. So named from
shape of the upper lip of the corolla.] (Bot.)
A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order
Scrophulariace[ae], natives of North America; -- called
also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc.
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snakehead
(wn) | snakehead
n 1: showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North
America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower
part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple
[syn: shellflower, shell-flower, turtlehead,
snakehead, snake-head, Chelone glabra] |
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northern snakehead
(encz) | northern snakehead, n: |
Snakehead
(gcide) | Snakehead \Snake"head`\, n.
1. A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat
rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was
sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip
over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Bot.)
(a) The turtlehead.
(b) The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under
Guinea.
[1913 Webster]Turtlehead \Tur"tle*head`\ (t[^u]r"t'l-h[e^]d`), n. (Bot.)
An American perennial herb (Chelone glabra) having white
flowers shaped like the head of a turtle. Called also
snakehead, shell flower, and balmony.
[1913 Webster]Chelone \Che*lo"ne\, n. [Gr. chelw`nh a tortoise. So named from
shape of the upper lip of the corolla.] (Bot.)
A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order
Scrophulariace[ae], natives of North America; -- called
also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc.
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northern snakehead
(wn) | northern snakehead
n 1: a voracious freshwater fish that is native to northeastern
China; can use fin to walk and can survive out of water for
three days; a threat to American populations of fish |
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