CHELONE GLABRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chelone glabra mean? 

• CHELONE GLABRA (noun)
  The noun CHELONE GLABRA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: CHELONE GLABRA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHELONE GLABRA (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chelone glabra; shell-flower; shellflower; snake-head; snakehead; turtlehead

Hypernyms ("Chelone glabra" is a kind of...):

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)

Holonyms ("Chelone glabra" is a member of...):

Chelone; genus Chelone (herbaceous perennials: shellflower)