Search Result for "antirrhinum majus":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. perennial native to the Mediterranean but widely cultivated for its purple or pink flowers;
[syn: Mediterranean snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Snapdragon \Snap"drag`on\, n. 1. (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. [1913 Webster] 2. A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Antirrhinum majus n 1: perennial native to the Mediterranean but widely cultivated for its purple or pink flowers [syn: Mediterranean snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus]