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snapdragons

snapdragons is the plural of snapdragon.

Meaning of snapdragon

Noun

snapdragon (countable and uncountable, plural snapdragons)

  1. (countable) Any plant of the genus Antirrhinum, with showy yellow, white or red flowers.
    • […]of kitchen-gardens, and straight herb-borders, and warm snap-dragon beset by bees;1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “Toad's Adventures”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 166
    Synonyms:
    dragon flower
  2. (uncountable) A game in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; the substance snatched and eaten during the playing of the game; the vessel used for the game.
    • He bore a ſtrange kind of Appetite to Snap-dragon, and to the livid Snuffs of a burning Candle, which he would catch and ſwallow with an Agility, wonderful to conceive; [...]1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section XI”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 198
    Synonyms:
    flapdragon

Phrases with snapdragons

Questions about snapdragons

What is snapdragons the plural of?
Snapdragons is the plural of snapdragon.

Words near snapdragons in the dictionary

  1. Snapchatters
  2. Snapchatting
  3. snapdragon
  4. snapdragon double
  5. snapdragon doubles
  6. snapdragons
  7. snape
  8. Snape with Thorp
  9. snaped
  10. Snapefic
  11. Snapefics

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