chelone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of genus Chelone of four species of perennial herbaceous plants that are native to eastern North America.
name
  1. A woman who became the tortoise as punishment for disobeying a summons from the gods.

Word forms

chelone chelones

Etymology

From the genus name.

Related words

Chelonia
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.