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gilt-heads

gilt-heads is the plural of gilt-head.

Meaning of gilt-head

Noun

gilt-head (plural gilt-heads)

  1. The gilt-head bream.
    • To give another instance: upon examining the fins of a fish to me unknown, I find them prickly; I then look for the situation of the ventral fins, I find them entirely wanting; this then must be a prickly-finned apodal fish. Of this kind there are but three; and, by comparing the fish with the...1813, Oliver Goldsmith, A history of the earth: and animated nature - Volume 6, page 258

Questions about gilt-heads

What is gilt-heads the plural of?
Gilt-heads is the plural of gilt-head.

Words near gilt-heads in the dictionary

  1. gilt silver
  2. gilt-edged
  3. gilt-head
  4. gilt-head bream
  5. gilt-head breams
  6. gilt-heads
  7. gilt-tail
  8. gilt-tails
  9. Giltbrook
  10. gilteritinib
  11. gilthead

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