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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
Answer for the clue "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 ", 9 letters:
snakehead
Word definitions for snakehead in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1845 as a type of plant; 1891 as a type of Asian carnivorous fish," from snake (n.) + head (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context fish English) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, ''(taxlink Channidae family noshow=1)''. 2 (context slang English) A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people 3 A showy perennial plant, (taxlink Chelone glabra ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Snakeheads are Chinese gangs that smuggle people to other countries. They are found in the Fujian region of China and smuggle their customers into wealthier Western countries such as those in Western Europe , North America , Australia , and some nearby ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Turtlehead \Tur"tle*head`\, n. (Bot.) An American perennial herb ( Chelone glabra ) having white flowers shaped like the head of a turtle. Called also snakehead , shell flower , and balmony .
Usage examples of snakehead.
Sonny Li forgot about the snakehead, forgot about his dangerous life back in Fujian Province, forgot about anything except the ten judges of hell gleefully urging demons to prod his dying belly with their spears.
The Coast Guard might not be able to effectively search the immigrants and the ship before it arrived at the harbor here and the snakehead and any assistants might try to shoot their way to freedom.
Chang gauged the distance to the crewmen, wondering if he could reach them before the snakehead was close enough to have a clear shot.
A minute later came the crack of a gun firing, then another, as the snakehead murdered the two crew members.
He looked up and down the shore for the snakehead but it was impossible to see very far through the mist and the rain.
The snakehead on the shipwe call him the Ghosthe saw me and came down to the shore.
He gazed at these items intently, as if imploring the inanimate evidence assembled before him to come to life, give up whatever secrets it might hold and guide them to the killer and the unfortunate prey that the snakehead was hunting.
The snakehead tried to kill us all but I got a dozen people out of the hold.
Gasping in fright, she sat up fast, picturing the snakehead in the raft, a gun in his hand.
Dellray had tried explaining to the assistant special agent in charge that there was also the little matter that the snakehead in question was a mass murderer.
His heart vibrating from the shock, the snakehead scrabbled backward, his lucky gun up, as he looked for a target.
The snakehead looked behind them through the doorway and could see several officers cautiously approaching the store.
It had one specialty only and that was to serve as a base of snakehead operations in the New York area.
He killed his first man at thirteena Vietnamese drug dealer who had robbed the snakehead Ang was working for.
If they could find the person who sold the Ghost this batch of C4, he might know where the snakehead had other safe houses in New York, or other bases of operation.