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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

... said Delia to herself, suddenly stopping to snap off the head of a snapdragon which grew in an angle of the old red wall—"if she is—if she dares—if she doesn't see that the Professor is worth more than all the people in ...

— Thistle and Rose - A Story for Girls • Amy Walton

... Michel is close to the chateau, but is of much more ancient origin, as its church plainly shows. The venerable Romanesque door-way was to me more beautiful because of the purple spots of snapdragon, that shone in the clear dimness of the twilight like little coloured lamps about the crevices of the old stones. It is uncertain whether Montaigne was christened here or in the family chapel. It was a strange christening wherever it took place, for we are told that he ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

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