Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The guineahen flower, Fritillaria Meleagris: said to be so called from the checkered markings on the petals.
- noun Same as
snakehead , 5.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.
- noun (Bot.) an iridaceous plant (
Hermodactylus tuberosus ) of the Mediterranean region. The flowers slightly resemble a serpent's open mouth.
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Examples
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Trembling in fear and rage, his thoughts whirling in confusion, Tanis stumbled down the stairs leading from the snake's-head platform.
Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010
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Its bulk would burst open the cells, its teeth could rip off a man's-or a snake's-head.
The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993
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Trembling in fear and rage, his thoughts whirling in confusion, Tanis stumbled down the stairs leading from the snake's-head platform.
Dragons of Spring Dawning Weis, Margaret 1985
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I think it probable that critical and unprejudiced examination will show that more than one species of much higher animals have had a similar longevity; but the only example, which I can at present give confidently is the snake's-head lamp-shell (Terebratulina caput serpentis), which lives in our English seas and abounded (as Terebratulina striata of authors) in the chalk.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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By these, but on the lower ground almost level with the water, big forget-me-nots, butterburs, and wild snake's-head lilies should be set, and all the crimson and white varieties of garden daisy.
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I think it probable that critical and unprejudiced examination will show that more than one species of much higher animals have had a similar longevity; but the only example which I can at present give confidently is the snake's-head lamp-shell
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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I think it probable that critical and unprejudiced examination will show that more than one species of much higher animals have had a similar longevity; but the only example, which I can at present give confidently is the snake's-head lamp-shell (Terebratulina caput serpentis), which lives in our English seas and abounded (as Terebratulina striata of authors) in the chalk.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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I can at present give confidently is the snake's-head lamp-shell
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Bulgari's initial foray into retail reptilia began in the 1940s when it designed snake's-head watches.
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