turtlehead

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turtlehead

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From turtle + head, from the shape of the flower. Influenced by the taxonomic name Chelone.

noun turtleheads

countable, uncountable A white turtlehead, an American perennial herb (Chelone glabra) with white flowers. ᴄʜᴇʟᴏɴᴀ ɢʟᴀʙʀᴀ. Common Names—Snake-head, Balmony, Turtle-head, Turtle-bloom, Shell-flower, Bitter-herb, &c.
Similar: balmony, shell flower, snakehead
countable, uncountable Any of various other members of the genus Chelone. […] [T]he fifth stamen, which is altogether missing in Gerardia and most others, appears in the Figwort as a little scale, and in Pentstemon and Turtlehead as a sort of filament without any anther;—a thing of no use whatever to the plant, but very interesting to the botanist, since it completes the

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@misc{turtlehead_2026,
  title = {turtlehead},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/turtlehead},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}