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snakehead
English
Etymology
snake +? head
Pronunciation
Noun
snakehead (plural snakeheads)
- (zoology) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.
- 2015, Labodalih Sembiring, translating Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger, Verso 2015, p. 1:
- Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it.
- 2015, Labodalih Sembiring, translating Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger, Verso 2015, p. 1:
- (slang) A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people
- 2008, Frozen River, 00:33:10
- Why would they want to run? -- To get away from the snakeheads. -- What's that? -- The snakeheads pay to get them here and then they gotta work off what they owe.
- 2008, Frozen River, 00:33:10
- A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
- A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
- The guinea-hen flower, Fritillaria meleagris.
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bowfin
English
Etymology
bow +? fin
Noun
bowfin (plural bowfins)
- A voracious ganoid fish, Amia calva, the last survivor of the order Amiiformes, found in the fresh waters of the United States.
Synonyms
- Johnny Grindle, dogfish, mudfish, choupique
Translations
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- bowfin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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