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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In Maryland, transporting a snakehead while it is still alive is illegal.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
When he first hooked the historic fish, he thought it was a normal snakehead.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
The northern snakehead was caught last month in a drainage pool at Duck Creek Conservation Area.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
On May 19, state workers using a net to catch bait for a youth jug-fishing clinic, pulled a 13-inch northern snakehead out of Duck Creek Conservation Area.
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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