snakehead
noun
Meaning
- A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.
- A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people
- 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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