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green head

green head is the alternative form of greenhead.

Meaning of greenhead

Noun

greenhead (plural greenheads)

  1. Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly.
    • Fascinated with the island’s bugs that cause Lyme disease and other illnesses, he traps greenhead flies, and plucks ticks off deer that hunters shoot, shipping bottled bugs to mainland researchers.2007 August 12, Pam Belluck, “Nantucket’s Medical Mr. Fix-It for Whatever Happens to Ail You”, in New York Times
  2. The mallard.
  3. A fish, the striped bass.

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Forms of green head

pluralgreen heads

Questions about green head

What is green head the alternative form of?
Green head is the alternative form of greenhead.

Words near green head in the dictionary

  1. green hands
  2. green handshake
  3. green handshakes
  4. Green Harbor
  5. green hastings
  6. green head
  7. Green Heart
  8. green hellebore
  9. green hellebores
  10. green heron
  11. green herons

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