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snake's-head

snake's-head is the alternative form of snake's head.

Meaning of snake's head

Noun

snake's head (plural snake's heads)

  1. snake's head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris), a flowering plant in the family Liliaceae, native to Eurasia.
    • Hangings of tapestry were behind the high seats, worked with flowers, snake’s-head, snapdragon, dragon-mouth, and their kind; and on the dado below the windows were sculptures of birds and beasts and creeping things.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3
    Synonyms:
    fritillary
  2. snake's head desertdandelion (Malacothrix coulteri), a plant in the family Asteraceae, native to North America.
  3. Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arum maculatum), a plant in the family Araceae, native to northern Europe.
    Synonyms:
    cuckoopint, Adam and Eve, adder's meat, adder's root, arum, arum lily, bobbins, cows and bulls, cuckoo-plant, devils and angels
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see snake, head.

Forms of snake's-head

pluralsnake's-heads

Questions about snake's-head

What is snake's-head the alternative form of?
Snake's-head is the alternative form of snake's head.

Words near snake's-head in the dictionary

  1. snake wines
  2. Snake Woman
  3. snake's head
  4. snake's heads
  5. snake's tongue
  6. snake's-head
  7. snake's-heads
  8. snake-bite
  9. snake-bites
  10. snake-cased
  11. snake-eating cobra

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