chelone

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun chelone has 1 sense

chelone(n = noun.plant) genus chelone - herbaceous perennials: shellflower; Array

is a kind of asterid dicot genus

is a member of family scrophulariaceae, figwort family, foxglove family, scrophulariaceae

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CIDE DICTIONARY

chelone, n. [Gr. chelw`nh a tortoise. So named from shape of the upper lip of the corolla.].

A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceæ, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc. [1913 Webster]

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