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FLATHEAD

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• FLATHEAD (noun)
The noun FLATHEAD has 2 senses:

1. food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards
2. pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout

Familiarity information: FLATHEAD used as a noun is rare.

• FLATHEAD (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("flathead" is a kind of...):

scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)

Holonyms ("flathead" is a member of...):

family Platycephalidae; Platycephalidae (scorpaenoid flatheads)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("flathead" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Holonyms ("flathead" is a member of...):

family Percophidae; Percophidae (percoid flatheads)

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Definition of percoid fish

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