[tomyam plāchǿn] (n, exp) EN: tom yam pla chon ; sour and spicy soup with snakehead fish ; hot and sour snake-head fish soup flavoured with lemongrass, lime leave
(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, Syn. shell-flower, turtlehead, Chelone glabra, snakehead, snake-head