snakehead
  貝母的一種
  Snake·head n.
  1. A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
  2. Bot. (a) The turtlehead. (b) The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under Guinea.
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  snake-head
       n : 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: shellflower, shell-flower, turtlehead,
            snakehead, Chelone glabra]
  snakehead
       n : 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: shellflower, shell-flower, turtlehead,
            snake-head, Chelone glabra]