smoothhead
smoothhead noun: any fish with a smooth head.
Noun
smoothhead (plural smoothheads)
- Any fish with a smooth head.
- Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their...1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times
Forms of smoothhead
| plural | smoothheads |
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Origin of smoothhead
From smooth + head.
Questions about smoothhead
- What does smoothhead mean?
- Smoothhead means any fish with a smooth head.
- What part of speech is smoothhead?
- Smoothhead is a noun.
- What is the plural of smoothhead?
- The plural of smoothhead is smoothheads.
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