snapdragon

Etymology
(1570s) From, from a fancied resemblance, especially by playing children that the flower is a dragon that opens its "mouth" when squeezed on the sides. Compare for this sense the etymology of 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. An ancient name was. For the parlour game sense, the 1704 Swift quotation is apparently the earliest appearance in print.

Other animal-based names for the flower are common; compare and.

Noun

 * 1)  Any plant of the genus, with showy yellow, white or red flowers.
 * 2) * 2000, Margaret Roberts, Edible & Medicinal Flowers, New Africa Books (The Spearhead Press), page 72,
 * The snapdragon is indigenous to Europe and has been a much loved garden plant since before the Middle Ages, when it was considered an antidote against witchcraft.
 * 1)  A game in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; the substance snatched and eaten during the playing of the game; the vessel used for the game.
 * 2) * 2014,, When Sparks Fly, , unnumbered page,
 * "I hope we play snapdragon," eight-​year-​old Timothy Metcalf said.
 * "I wish we could," Ellie said, "but I doubt Papa will allow it. He'll say snatching raisins from a burning bowl of brandy is too dangerous."
 * "But snapdragon is a Christmas tradition!" protested Percy.
 * 1) * 2014,, When Sparks Fly, , unnumbered page,
 * "I hope we play snapdragon," eight-​year-​old Timothy Metcalf said.
 * "I wish we could," Ellie said, "but I doubt Papa will allow it. He'll say snatching raisins from a burning bowl of brandy is too dangerous."
 * "But snapdragon is a Christmas tradition!" protested Percy.
 * "I wish we could," Ellie said, "but I doubt Papa will allow it. He'll say snatching raisins from a burning bowl of brandy is too dangerous."
 * "But snapdragon is a Christmas tradition!" protested Percy.

Translations

 * Arabic: أَنْف الْعِجْل
 * Bengali: গুল ময়মন
 * Bulgarian:
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 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: hledík
 * Danish: løvemund
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: antirino, leonfaŭko, lupfaŭko
 * Estonian: lõvilõug
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀνάρρινον
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Hunsrik: Leebmeilche
 * Irish: antairíneam
 * Italian: bocca di leone
 * Kazakh: есінек
 * Lithuanian: žioveinis
 * Macedonian: зја́јка, зе́јка
 * Navajo: shį́náldzidí
 * Norman: dgeule-dé-lion
 * Old English: hundeshéafod
 * Persian: گل میمون
 * Polish: lwia paszcza, wyżlin
 * Portuguese:, boca-de-lobo, antirrino,
 * Romanian:
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 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: trwyn y llo, safn y llew, ceg fy nain, pen ci bach