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greenheads

greenheads is the plural 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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Questions about greenheads

What is greenheads the plural of?
Greenheads is the plural of greenhead.

Words near greenheads in the dictionary

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

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