greenhead

See also: Greenhead

English

Etymology

From green +‎ head.

Noun

greenhead (plural greenheads)

1. Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly.
   • 2007 August 12, Pam Belluck, “Nantucket’s Medical Mr. Fix-It for Whatever Happens to Ail You”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

2. The mallard.
3. A fish, the striped bass.

Derived terms

• greenhead ant
• greenhead bream
• greenhead shiner
• greenhead tilapia
• perennial greenhead sedge

 

References

• “greenhead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.