snake's head

plural snake's heads · alternative snake's-head · alternative snakeshead · alternative snakehead · alternative snake-head

1. snake's head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris), a flowering plant in the family Liliaceae, native to Eurasia.

   Hangings of tapestry were behind the high seats, worked with flowers, snake’s-head, snapdragon, dragon-mouth, and their kind; and on the dado below the windows were sculptures of birds and beasts and creeping things.

   1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3

   Synonyms: fritillary

2. snake's head desertdandelion (Malacothrix coulteri), a plant in the family Asteraceae, native to North America.
3. Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arum maculatum), a plant in the family Araceae, native to northern Europe.

   Synonyms: cuckoopint, Adam and Eve, adder's meat, adder's root, arum, arum lily, bobbins, cows and bulls

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see snake, head.