hammerhead
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
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 of various sharks of the genera Sphyrna or Zygaena having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape.
- (zoology) A fresh-water fish; the hogsucker, Hypentelium nigricans, in the sucker family Catostomidae.
- (zoology) An African fruit bat, the hammer-headed fruit bat, Hypsignathus monstrosus, so called from its large blunt nozzle.
- (zoology) Scopus umbretta (hammerkop).
- (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
|
See also
[edit]References
[edit]
hammerhead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “hammerhead”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “hammerhead”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
