hammerhead
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Etymology
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Noun
[edit]hammerhead (plural hammerheads)
- The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).
- (zoology) Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:
- Any shark of the family Sphyrnidae, which only includes the genera Sphyrna and Zygaena, with eyes set on projections from the sides of the head.
- A hogsucker, a fresh-water fish of species Hypentelium nigricans, in the sucker family Catostomidae.
- A hammer-headed fruit bat, a fruit bat of species Hypsignathus monstrosus, with a large blunt nozzle.
- A hammerkop, a bird of species Scopus umbretta.
- (slang) A stupid person, a dunce.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing:
- [The butler] joined us with a telegram for Bobbie on a salver. From her mother, I presumed, calling me some name which she had forgotten to insert in previous communications. Or, of course, possibly expressing once more her conviction that I was a guffin, which, I thought, having had time to ponder over it, would be something in the nature of a bohunkus or a hammerhead.
- A turn-around; a parking area constructed in a subdivision for initial access and construction.
- (biology) A kind of ribozyme; hammerhead ribozyme.
Synonyms
[edit]- (shark): hammerhead shark, hammer fish, balance fish
Translations
[edit]shark
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See also
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hammerhead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “hammerhead”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “hammerhead”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
