snakehead
Americannoun
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a turtlehead plant.
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any elongate fish of the family Channidae (or Ophicephalidae), having a large head with a deeply cleft mouth and able to breathe atmospheric oxygen.
noun
Etymology
Origin of snakehead
Example Sentences
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A Dorchester County, Maryland, man broke the record for the heaviest invasive snakehead fish ever caught in the state at a whopping 21 pounds, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced Friday.
From Washington Times • Jul. 7, 2023
The previous record-holder, a 19.9-pound snakehead, was caught in 2018.
From Washington Times • Jul. 7, 2023
The northern snakehead is originally from east Asia, where they are a delicacy believed to have healing powers.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2023
Larry Underwood, 73, who lives near the conservation area, wished the state well in its efforts to keep out the northern snakehead.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2023
Mingled with these grow, lower, the spiraeas, white and pink, yellow touch-me-not, fresh white arrowhead, bright blue vervain and skullcap, dull snakehead, gay monkey-flower, coarse eupatoriums, milk-weeds, golden-rods, asters, thistles, and a host beside.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various
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