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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: shellflower (0.01833 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to shellflower.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: shellflower
shellflower
n 1: 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 [syn:
shell-flower,
turtlehead,
snakehead,
snake-head,
Chelone glabra]
2: cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching
clusters of white flowers with shell-pink shading and
crinkled yellow lip with variegated magenta stripes [syn:
shall-flower,
shell ginger,
Alpinia Zerumbet,
Alpinia speciosa
,
Languas speciosa]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: shellflower
Chelone
\Che*lo"ne\, n. [Gr. chelw`nh a tortoise. So named from
shape of the upper lip of the corolla.] (Bot.)
A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order
Scrophulariace[ae], natives of North America; -- called
also
snakehead,
turtlehead,
shellflower, etc.
[1913 Webster]
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