dragonhead

dragonhead
noun
American herb having sharply serrate lanceolate leaves and spikes of blue to violet flowers
Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
Member Holonyms: ↑Dracocephalum, ↑genus Dracocephalum

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noun or dragon's-head \\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ (plural dragonheads or dragon's-heads)
Etymology: translation of New Latin Dracocephalum
: a mint of the genus Dracocephalum; especially : a No. American plant (D. parviflorum)

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/drag"euhn hed'/, n.
any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
[1500-10; trans. of NL Dracocephalum]

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dragˈonhead or dragˈon's-head noun
A labiate garden plant (genus Dracocephalum; from the shape of the corolla)
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