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Turtlehead

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Noun

1. chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, snakehead, 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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Turtlehead

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noun
another name (US) for chelone

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Turtlehead

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noun
US
any of a genus (Chelone) of perennial North American plants of the figwort family, with showy, tubular, white or pink flowers

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Turtlehead

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n.
Any of several perennial North American herbs of the genus Chelone of the figwort family, especially C. glabra, having spikes of tubular two-lipped white or pink flowers. Also called snakehead.

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