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 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]