shell-flower

Noun

Synonyms: shellflower turtlehead snakehead snake-head Chelone glabra

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Noun (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 purpleSynonyms: shellflower turtlehead snakehead snake-head Chelone glabraType of marsh plant, bog plantMember of Chelone, genus Chelone

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Webster's Dictionary (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. [1913 Webster]