chelone glabra

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   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

   Synonymsshellflowershell-flowerturtleheadsnakeheadsnake-head

   Broadermarsh plant

   Part ofChelone

Questions about chelone glabra

What does chelone glabra mean?

chelone glabra means "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".

What is another word for chelone glabra?

Close synonyms include shellflower, shell-flower, turtlehead, snakehead, snake-head. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chelone glabra a common word?

chelone glabra is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.