snakes head (snakshed)

1. The guinea hen flower, Fritillaria Meleagris: said to be so called from the checkered markings on the petals.-2. Same as snakehead, 5. - Snake's-head iris, a plant of southern Europe, Hermodactylus (Iris) tuberosus, the flowers of which have a fancied resemblance to the open mouth of a snake. snake-shell (snāk's hel), n. One of a group of gastropods of the family Turbinida, which abound in the Pacific islands, and have a very rough outside, and a chink at the pillar. P. P. IMG:content-1390.png:[blocks in formation] cat us). often found among prehistoric and other antiquities, probably spindle-whorls or the like. Compare adder - stone. In Harris and Lewis the distaff and spindle are still in common use, and yet the original intention of the stone spindle-whorls, which occur there and elsewhere, appears to be unknown. They are called clach-nathrach, adderstones, or snake - stones , and have an origin a igned them much like the ovum anguinum of Pliny. Evans, Ancient Stone Implements, p. 391. ( Encyc. Dict.) 3. A kind of hone or whetstone found in Scotland.-4. Same as serpent - stone, 1. snake's-tongue (snāks tung), n. 1. The spear wort, Ranunculus Flammula; also, the closely related R. ophioglo ifolius: named from the shape of the leaf.-2. More rarely, same as adder's tongue.