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greenhead

greenhead noun: tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly.

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.

Proper noun capitalized: Greenhead

Greenhead

  1. A village and civil parish in south-west Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY6665).
  2. A hamlet in Kingsley parish and Cheadle parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9846).
  3. A suburb of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8054).
  4. A hamlet east of Selkirk, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4929).

Forms of greenhead

pluralgreenheads
alternative formgreen head

Origin of greenhead

From green + head.

Words formed from greenhead

  • greenhead ant
  • greenhead bream
  • greenhead shiner
  • greenhead tilapia
  • perennial greenhead sedge

Questions about greenhead

What does greenhead mean?
Greenhead means tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly.
What part of speech is greenhead?
Greenhead can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of greenhead?
The plural of greenhead is greenheads.

Words near greenhead in the dictionary

  1. greenhand
  2. greenhands
  3. greenhart
  4. Greenhaw
  5. Greenhaws
  6. greenhead
  7. greenheads
  8. greenheart
  9. greenhearts
  10. greenhew
  11. greenhews

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