different between snakehead vs snakeshead

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snake +? head

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.
(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.
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.

From snake +? -s- +? head.

snakeshead (plural snakesheads)

Fritillaria meleagris, a flowering plant in the family Liliaceae.
Synonyms: snake's head fritillary, snake's head, chess flower, frog-cup, guinea-hen flower, guinea flower, leper lily, Lazarus bell, chequered lily, chequered daffodil, drooping tulip, fritillary

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