SNAKE'S HEAD FRITILLARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snake's head fritillary mean? 

• SNAKE'S HEAD FRITILLARY (noun)
  The noun SNAKE'S HEAD FRITILLARY has 1 sense:

1. Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times; widely grown as an ornamental

  Familiarity information: SNAKE'S HEAD FRITILLARY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNAKE'S HEAD FRITILLARY (noun)

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Meaning:

Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times; widely grown as an ornamental

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

checkered daffodil; Fritillaria meleagris; guinea-hen flower; leper lily; snake's head fritillary

Hypernyms ("snake's head fritillary" is a kind of...):

checkered lily; fritillary (any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers)