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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(zoology) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae..
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.
Use snakehead when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Snakehead means (zoology) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae..
Common synonyms include turtlehead, shellflower, chelone glabra.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it.
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