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n. - Showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple.

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  • The snakehead is not in Ohio yet, but does it pose a threat to your fishing rivers, streams, lakes, or ponds?
  • He's a snakehead, which is the term used to describe Chinese human smugglers of illegal aliens.
  • "snakehead" - shaped, which leads me to believe that they came into being in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
  • Chinese snakehead groups are loose-knit and fluid.
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