snakehead

Noun

snake=head

WORDNET DICTIONARY

snakehead(n = noun.plant) chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, turtlehead - 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; Array

is a member of chelone, genus chelone

is a kind of bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant

snakehead, n.

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]
The turtlehead. [1913 Webster]

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