Flathead: Definition with Flathead Pictures and Photos

1. Noun. Food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards.

Generic synonyms: Scorpaenoid, Scorpaenoid Fish
Group relationships: Family Platycephalidae, Platycephalidae

2. Noun. Pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout.

Generic synonyms: Percoid, Percoid Fish, Percoidean
Group relationships: Family Percophidae, Percophidae

1. a. Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.

2. n. A Chinook Indian. See Chinook, n., 1.

1. a marine food fish [n -S]

1. A Chinook Indian. See Chinook. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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