'shellflower' definitions:
Definition of 'shellflower'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, snake-head, Chelone glabra]
noun
Cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes [syn: shellflower, shall- flower, shell ginger, Alpinia Zerumbet, Alpinia speciosa, Languas speciosa]
Definition of 'shellflower'
From: GCIDE
- Chelone \Che*lo"ne\, n. [Gr. chelw`nh a tortoise. So named from shape of the upper lip of the corolla.] (Bot.) A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariace[ae], natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc. [1913 Webster]