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WILD SNAPDRAGON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild snapdragon mean? 

WILD SNAPDRAGON (noun)
  The noun WILD SNAPDRAGON has 1 sense:

1. common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North Americaplay

  Familiarity information: WILD SNAPDRAGON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WILD SNAPDRAGON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

butter-and-eggs; devil's flax; Linaria vulgaris; toadflax; wild snapdragon

Hypernyms ("wild snapdragon" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild snapdragon"):

blue toadflax; Linaria canadensis; old-field toadflax (North American plant having racemes of blue-violet flowers)

Holonyms ("wild snapdragon" is a member of...):

genus Linaria; Linaria (genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers: spurred snapdragon)


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