Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun turtlehead

1 sense of turtlehead

Sense 1
shellflower, shell-flower, turtlehead, snakehead, snake-head, Chelone glabra -- (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)
       => marsh plant, bog plant, swamp plant -- (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)