snakehead
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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: shellflowershell-flowerturtleheadsnake-headChelone glabraType of marsh plant, bog plantMember of Chelone, genus Chelone
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Snake′head′ noun
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.
2. Botany (a) The turtlehead. (b) The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under Guinea.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54