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turtlehead

[ tur-tl-hed ]

noun

  1. any of several North American plants belonging to the genus Chelone, of the figwort family, having opposite, serrated leaves and spikes of purple or white, two-lipped flowers.


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Origin of turtlehead1

1855–60, Americanism; turtle 1 + head, so called from the appearance of its flower
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“No comfort for fascists!” said the turtlehead man.

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You associate some of the lower plantings with moist soil — the royal fern, turtlehead and creeping phlox, for example — but others you’d think would run a mile from flood.

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At Cromwell Valley Park — a member of the recovery team — volunteers have planted four white turtlehead enclosures with high fences to protect the plants from deer.

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Habitat will be created with the turtlehead plants of which the butterflies are fond, he said by e-mail.

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They found compounds in the nectar of wild tobacco, linden, and white turtlehead flowers that cut the numbers of a common gut parasite in bumblebees by as much as 80 percent.

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