antirrhinum

British  

/ ˌæntɪˈraɪnəm /

noun

1. any scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Antirrhinum, esp the snapdragon, which have two-lipped flowers of various colours

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Etymology

Origin of antirrhinum

C16: via Latin from Greek antirrhinon, from _anti- (imitating) + rhis nose; so called from a fancied likeness to an animal's snout

Example Sentences

Now, in common with a large number of perennials and biennials, the Antirrhinum is almost exclusively grown from seed.

From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons

But flowers furnished with only a few stamens, and others which are asymmetrical in structure, sometimes become double, as we see with the double gorse or Ulex, and Antirrhinum.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles

But flowers furnished with only a few stamens, and others which are asymmetrical in structure, sometimes become double, as we see with the double gorse or Ulex, Petunia, and Antirrhinum.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

The presence of two small green laminæ on the outer side of the two posterior stamens in Antirrhinum majus has also been met with.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

Antirrhinum, an-tir-rī′num, n. the genus of plants to which Snapdragon belongs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various