shellflower, shell-flower, turtlehead, snakehead, snake-head, Chelone glabra
(noun) 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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
snakehead (plural snakeheads)
(fish) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.
(slang) A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people
A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
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.
The guinea-hen flower, Fritillaria meleagris.
Source: Wiktionary
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.
2. (Bot.) (a) The turtlehead. (b) The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under Guinea.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
