Crossword clues for snapdragon
snapdragon
- Mediterranean plant
- Mouth-shaped garden flower
- Flower named for a legendary beast
- Spring bloom named for its resemblance to a mythical creature
- Perennial with a large mouth
- Mouth-shaped flower
- Kind of antirrhinum
- Foxglove cousin
- Flower named for its resemblance to a winged beast
- Finger-clicking, fire-breathing plant?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snapdragon \Snap"drag`on\, n.
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(Bot.)
Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.
A West Indian herb ( Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.
A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon.
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any plant of the genus ''Antirrhinum'', with showy yellow, white or red flowers. 2 A game in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten.
WordNet
n. a garden plant of the genus Antirrhinum having showy white or yellow or crimson flowers resembling the face of a dragon
Wikipedia
Snapdragon is a 1993 film starring former Playboy Playmate Pamela Anderson. Pamela Anderson, just coming off the success of her Playboy layouts, has her first starring film role.
Snapdragon (Sheoke Sanada) is a Japanese supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe. She first appeared in Marvel Fanfare vol. 1 #12 (1984) and was created by Ralph Macchio and George Pérez.
Snapdragon or Antirrhinum is a genus of plants.
Snapdragon or Snap-dragon may also refer to:
- Snap-dragon (game), a parlour game
- Snapdragon (comics), a Japanese supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe
- Snapdragon (film), an 1993 American thriller film by Worth Keeter
- Snapdragon (Transformers), a character from the Transformers series
- Qualcomm Snapdragon, a hardware platform developed by Qualcomm for mobile devices
- The Snapdragons, an independent British rock band
- SnapDragon Games, a game developer for Nintendo platforms
- HMS Snapdragon, several ships in the Royal Navy
- Snapdragon (Morituri), a Strikeforce character in Marvel comics
- Snapdragon Records (since 2002), a U.S. record label
- SnapDragon (since 2008), a U.S. contemporary-jazz band
- Snapdragon, an internet chat-room alias once used by Lex Luthor in Teen Titans vol. 3 comic books.
SnapDragon is a contemporary jazz band based in San Antonio, Texas. The group released their debut CD, "Stealing a Moment" on Humbug Records in 2008, and the 10-song CD soon broke the Top 100 in U.S radio airplay (Mediabase Smooth Adult Contemporary chart). SnapDragon also had three tracks on the compilation CD "HumBug Christmas" (HumBug Records, 2008).
The group consists of Sam Mims ( keyboards and musical director), Steve Glaeser ( drums), and Carl Stutevoss ( bass). Former band member Danny Fisk played saxophones on "Stealing a Moment". Sam Mims, the songwriter and producer of "Stealing a Moment", previously worked as the keyboardist for jazz saxophonist Richard Elliot. Steve Glaeser formerly toured with artists such as Monte Alexander and Clark Terry. The band is frequently seen with post-indie group AudioCoitus.
Snapdragon (Lorna Leigh Raeburn) is a fictional character, a superhero of Marvel Comics, member of the Strikeforce: Morituri. The character was created by Peter B. Gillis and Brent Anderson.
Usage examples of "snapdragon".
The first thing that met his eye was Doctor Leonard Rugg sitting with his back to the room, staring morosely into a bowl of snapdragon gone cold.
Then I began moving up the scale again: a snapdragon, a black grouse, a gecko, and a bowlegged mongrel with one eye, chewed ears, and a body bearing the scars of a thousand back-alley battles.
Baur found four factors responsible for the red color of snapdragon blossoms.
Two more snapdragons died in the fight and two others were wounded, but Grindal and Dorkon were captured.
Painted in the background were spirelike inflorescent yellow and orange flowers that resembled small snapdragons.
Those violently blue hydrangeas, the blood-red of roses, the hot pink of snapdragons.
I picked a small bunch of yellow and pink snapdragons from the front garden and took them to the cemetery, to place them at the family tomb for the two pensive angels on their white cube: it would be something different for them, I thought.
Most of the cottages were whitewashed and thatched, their small gardens full of chrysanthemums and last snapdragons and roses.
On the table in the pavilion Kitty had put a big blue bowl of greengages and plums from Rannaldini's orchard, a matching blue vase of yellow snapdragons and red dahlias and two big jugs of lemon barley water but no alcohol.
At five-thirty, I'll pull up the salvia and replace them with Dutch iris, roses, snapdragons, ferns, ground cover.
A patrician rose would not have been caught out with blight in such surroundings, and gladioli and snapdragon recoiled from the stench of decomposing vegetation and insects.
Like women in their Ascot finery jostling forward to watch a big race, the herbaceous border was overcrowded with white-and-pink phlox, dog daisies, red-hot pokers, foxgloves, yellow snapdragons and soft blue cathedral spires of delphinium.
There, on her worktable with her brushes and palette knives, was the little white vase filled with the pink snapdragons she'd picked from her own garden that morning.
Outside a glorious July sun spread radiance and glow over an old-fashioned garden, over tall yew hedges, and fantastic forms of green birds and heads of beasts carefully cut and trimmed, over clumps of late roses and rough tangles of marguerites and potentillas, of stiff zinnias and rich-hued snapdragons.
Festooned with color snapshots, clippings, blue and red ribbons, Dad's Chamber of Commerce "medal," dried wildflowers, gorgeous seedcatalogue pictures of tomatoes, snapdragons, columbine.