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FLATHEAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
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)
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