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, snakehead, Chelone glabra]
Usage examples of "snake-head".
He fully expected, as every inch passed, a smack on his head, or a lashing on his back, Briza was behind him, always with her snake-headed whip near her anxious hand.
As if in response, the pillars of flame bent, wriggled, and took on the shapes of serpents, snake-heads questing this way and that.
You may believe that mistress Braids and her snake-headed assassins are working for you.
Dinin watched as enchanted extensions of the clerics, the dreaded snake-headed whips on his sisters' belts.
Outlined against the blue of the morning sky stood the monstrous figure of Coatlicue, snake-headed and claw-armed.
Here, the third face of the funeral chapel held a statue of the Sister in all her majesty as Queen of the Underworld: snake-headed scepter, skirt of thighbones, and necklace of human skulls.
Through them he dimly saw the priest snatch up the snake-head dagger in his unhurt hand, and glare at Blackgult, his eyes flat with hatred.