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snakeshead

snakeshead 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 snakeshead

pluralsnakesheads

Questions about snakeshead

What is snakeshead the alternative form of?
Snakeshead is the alternative form of snake's head.

Words near snakeshead in the dictionary

  1. snakes alive
  2. snakes and ladders
  3. snakes in the grass
  4. snakes out
  5. Snakes Plain
  6. snakeshead
  7. snakesheads
  8. snakeshot
  9. snakeskin
  10. snakeskins
  11. snakesona

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snakeshead (page history and authors); snake's head (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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