Snapdragon

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Snapdragon ★★ 1993 (R)

Police psychologist is led astray by his libido while investigating a luscious amnesiac. His sensible vice cop girlfriend then discovers the sexpot is actually a psycho serial killer calling herself the Snapdragon but will her boyfriend even care? 96m/C VHS, DVD . Steven Bauer, Pamela Anderson, Chelsea Field; D: Worth Keeter; W: Gene Church; C: James Mathers; M: Michael Linn.

snapdragon

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snap·drag·on / ˈsnapˌdragən/ • n. a plant (genus Antirrhinum) of the figwort family, bearing spikes of brightly colored two-lobed flowers that gape like a mouth when a bee lands on the curved lip.

snapdragon

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snapdragon Any of several species of perennial plants of the genus Antirrhinum, with sac-like, two-lipped, purple, red, yellow or white flowers. The common snapdragon (A. majus) is a popular garden plant. Height: 15–91cm (0.5–3ft). Family Scrophulariaceae.

snapdragon

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snapdragon a game (typically played at Christmas) which consisted of snatching raisins out of a bowl or dish of burning brandy and eating them while still alight. The term is recorded from the early 18th century.

snapdragon

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snapdragon See ANTIRRHINUM.

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