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snake's heads

snake's heads is the plural 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.

Questions about snake's heads

What is snake's heads the plural of?
Snake's heads is the plural of snake's head.

Words near snake's heads in the dictionary

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

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