Snake-head

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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}.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  snake-head
       n : 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}, {Chelone glabra}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  snakehead
       n : 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},
            {snake-head}, {Chelone glabra}]