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dragonmouth (plural dragonmouths)

  1. A purple-flowered herb, Horminum pyrenaicum, native to the Alps and Pyrenees.
    • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 3:
      Hangings of tapestry were behind the high seats, worked with flowers, snake’s-head, snapdragon, dragon-mouth, and their kind; and on the dado below the windows were sculptures of birds and beasts and creeping things.