Definitions for snapdragon

snapdragon snap·drag·on

Spelling: [snap-drag-uh n]
IPA: /ˈsnæpˌdræg ən/

Snapdragon is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 494 anagrams from letters in snapdragon (aadgnnoprs).

Definitions for snapdragon

noun

  1. any plant belonging to the genus Antirrhinum, of the figwort family, especially A. majus, cultivated for its spikes of showy flowers, each having a corolla supposed to resemble the mouth of a dragon.
  2. flapdragon.

Origin of snapdragon

First recorded in 1565-75; snap + dragon

Examples for snapdragon

In irregular flowers, like the snapdragon and foxglove, the decoration is irregular.

They promised mistletoe, snapdragon, and Sir Roger de Coverley.

Like the old-fashioned folk they were, they had a snapdragon and plenty of mistletoe and plenty of the usual jokes about both.

More in the abstract, they were snatching at a snapdragon bowl.

The snapdragon is especially adapted for fertilisation by Humble Bees.

Between the lamp and the prism I interpose a snapdragon light.

"snapdragon be d—d simply," quoth Listado's voice once more.

As for the delicious lurid function, snapdragon, is it obsolete in England yet?

In the courtyard there is a border of hollyhocks and snapdragon and asters.

The snapdragon (perhaps you call it butter-and-eggs) does not mind at all where it grows.

Word Value for snapdragon
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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