snakehead
IPA: snˈeɪkhɛd
noun
- (zoology) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.
- (slang) A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people
- (derogatory, slang, ethnic slur, US) A black person.
- 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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Examples of "snakehead" in Sentences
- And she owes much to the snakehead.
- Crofton pond snakehead fish incident.
- Ditto the snakeheads in the Chesapeake Bay.
- The size of the snakehead species differs greatly.
- Channa is a genus of the Channidae family of snakehead fishes.
- Northern snakehead continue to be caught in the river as of 2007.
- Parachanna is a genus of the Channidae family of snakehead fishes.
- It is one of the smallest species of snakehead and has a length of.
- It is one of the smallest species of snakehead and has a length of .
- He's a snakehead, which is the term used to describe Chinese human smugglers of illegal aliens.
- "snakehead" - shaped, which leads me to believe that they came into being in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
- The snakehead is not in Ohio yet, but does it pose a threat to your fishing rivers, streams, lakes, or ponds?
- There, posing as buyers looking for a child, detectives arranged a meeting with the so-called snakehead, the gangster who had sold the boy on.
- In China, the snakehead is a sweet, meaty staple harvested in farms, and when boiled into soup, it is reputed to possess remarkable healing properties.
- Apparently there is a fish known as a snakehead that has shark-like teeth, walks on land and eats other creatures that fish were likely never meant to eat.
- The locals supposedly started a snakehead population in flushing meadows/corona lake in Queens NY because snakehead is apparently quite the delicacy for local Koreans.
- The snakehead was the talk of Chinatown since all the Chinese-language newspapers had articles about Mr. Wu's arrest, and even featured photos of the fish's razor-sharp teeth.
- When Alex discovers that a woman from the wreck and the congressman's lover have the same rose tattoo - the brand of a "snakehead", a master of a human trafficking operation - it dawns on her that these cases aren't as unrelated as they seem and that the entire political landscape of New York City could hang in the balance of her investigation.