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noun

Snapdragon n.

(Bot.)

(a)

Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated Antirrhinum majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.

(b)

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.

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Etymology of 'Snapdragon'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Snapdragon" Quotes from Famous Books

... vegetable do not in the least suggest, to the unbitten or unblighted human intellect, the notion of development into anything other than their like: one does not expect a mushroom to translate itself into a pineapple, nor a betony to moralize itself into a lily, nor a snapdragon to soften himself into ...

— Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin

Words linked to "Snapdragon" : genus Antirrhinum, wild snapdragon, Antirrhinum, Antirrhinum filipes, white snapdragon, yellow twining snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus, Antirrhinum coulterianum, flower, Mediterranean snapdragon