snake-head

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

snake-head
    n 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 purple
         [syn: {shellflower}, {shell-flower}, {turtlehead},
         {snakehead}, {snake-head}, {Chelone glabra}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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

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

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]

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