Snakehead

Quick meaning: Snakehead is a noun meaning (zoology) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.

Meaning

(zoology) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.

More Meanings

1. (US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
2. A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
3. (US, rail transport) A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads.
4. (slang) A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people.
5. (rare) Alternative form of snake's head, various not closely related species of flowering plant, including Fritillaria meleagris.

Example Sentences

Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it.

Why would they want to run? -- To get away from the snakeheads. -- What's that? -- The snakeheads pay to get them here and then they gotta work off what they owe.

[…] but snakeheads involved in air smuggling may venture into sea smuggling. A thirty-two-year-old housewife from Fuzhou who left China by boat alleged that her snakehead was involved in both.

Word Forms

• snakeheads

Synonyms for snakehead

Depending on context, synonyms include turtlehead, shellflower.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shellflower, turtlehead, channichthyid, chaenopsid, chanid, chandid.

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