noun
American herb having sharply serrate lanceolate leaves and spikes of blue to violet flowers
• Syn: ↑dragon's head, ↑Dracocephalum parviflorum
• 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
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/drag"euhn hed'/, n.
any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
Also, dragon's head.
[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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Main Entry: ↑dragon
Useful english dictionary. 2012.