snake's-head

[ sneyks-hed ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

snake's head

a European fritillary plant, Fritillaria meleagris, of damp meadows, having purple-and-white chequered flowers

First recorded in 1730–40

C19: so called because its buds are claimed to resemble a snake's head

By this time Betty dared push the stone off the snakes head, and they all regarded it.

The closed gentian keeps its darkly impenetrable blue beside the pink-tipped companion stalks of the snakes-head.

It was assuredly not a snakes head, as they had for a minute thought, but what was it?

Jerry placed the muzzle of the rifle close to the snakes head, and pulled the trigger.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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