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Webster 1913 Edition

Chelone

‖

Che-lo′ne

,

Noun.

[Gr.

χελώνη

a tortoise. So named from shape of the upper lip of the corolla.]

(Bot.)

A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order

Scrophulariaceæ

, natives of North America; – called also

snakehead

,

turtlehead

,

shellflower

, etc.