Definition of Headfishes

1. headfish [n] - See also: headfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Headfishes

headed
headed off
headedness
headend
headends
header
header file
header files
headered
headerless
headers
headfast
headfasts
headfirst
headfish
headfishes (current term)
headfold
headforemost
headful
headfuls
headgate
headgates
headgear
headgears
headgroup
headgroups
headgut

Literary usage of Headfishes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Story of the Fishes by George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, James Newton Baskett, George Henry Kingsley (1899)
"confusion with our little sunfish, we shall speak of these as headfishes. Here the fish is flattened (compressed) vertically, as is our fresh-water sunfish, ..."

2. The Story of the Fishes by James Newton Baskett (1899)
"In a few instances, as in flatfishes, headfishes, etc., the rear opening is directly under the throat. In all cases the whole digestive tract of a fish is ..."

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