snakehead : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: snakehead	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for snakehead
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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 Synonym(s): shellflower, shell-flower, turtlehead, snakehead, snake-head, Chelone glabra
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 2. (Bot.) (a) The turtlehead. (b) The Guinea-hen flower. See {Snake's-head}, and under {Guinea}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Turtlehead \Tur"tle*head`\, 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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Chelone \[d8]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[91]}, natives of North America; -- called also {snakehead}, {turtlehead}, {shellflower}, etc.