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Definition of snake's head in English: snake's headnoun A Eurasian fritillary with flowers chequered in red and purple, typically growing in damp hay meadows and water meadows. Fritillaria meleagris, family Liliaceae Example sentencesExamples - I have tried to grow snake's head fritillaries in the meadow at Brockhole, but I think the soil there is too acidic for them, since they failed to establish.
- He said: ‘It is likely that snake's head fritillaries were in the seed bank at Roves Farm and environmentally - friendly farming methods have encouraged the wild plants to return.’
- But thousands of people are expected to visit the reserve between now and mid-May to catch a glimpse of the snake's head fritillaries, which flower annually at this time of year.
- The reserve is a flower-rich hay meadow with a huge variety of wildflowers, but is most famous for playing host to Britain's largest population of the rare snake's head fritillary.
- Here, the dancers adorn their sleeves with purple and yellow ribbons, the colours of a rare local flower, the snake's head fritillary.
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