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Definition of Snail flower
1. Noun. Perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus.
Generic synonyms: Legume, Leguminous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Vigna, Vigna
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snail Flower
Literary usage of Snail flower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"SNAIL-FLOWER. CORKSCREW-FLOWER. Leaflets broadly rhombic-ovate, pointed or
acuminate: Hs. large and fleshy, in axillary racemes, light purple to yellowish, ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"SNAIL-FLOWER. CORKSCREW-FLOWER. Lfts. broadly rhombic-ovate, pointed or acuminate:
fls. large and fleshy, very fragrant, the large keel coiled like a ..."
3. The American Flower Garden Directory: Containing Practical Directions for by Robert Buist (1839)
"... or snail-flower is a very curious blooming plant, with flowers of a greenish
yellow, all spirally twisted, in great profusion when the plant is well ..."
4. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"... the affected plant should therefore be rooted up and burned to prevent the
spread of the disease. snail flower. See Phaseolus Caracalla. ..."
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