Snakehead

n.	1.	A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
	2.	(Bot.) The turtlehead.

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snakehead - 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 Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, turtlehead

bog plant, Chelone, Chelone glabra, genus Chelone, marsh plant, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, swamp plant, turtlehead