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Definition of Greenheads
1. greenhead [n] - See also: greenhead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenheads
Literary usage of Greenheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Absegami: Annals of Eyren Haven and Atlantic City, 1609 to 1904 by Alfred Miller Heston (1904)
"These latter places bred mosquitoes and harbored greenheads. ... So numerous were
the mosquitoes and greenheads in August, 1858, that horses, covered with ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1895)
"They try to hide behind the spatter dock, the females at least, but the beautiful
greenheads will never for a moment turn their watchful eye from us, ..."
3. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"... junkies, and greenheads." The Seed-tick is, in all probability, the same insect
as the hated Jigger or ..."
4. Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard by Ezra Dwight Sanderson (1921)
"... suggesting the common name greenheads, (Tabanus lineola Fab. is one), which
attack by preference the ears of horses and do not hesitate to attack man. ..."
5. History of the Voyages and Discoveries Made in the North by Johann Reinhold Forster (1786)
"greenheads) on account of the green caps which ' they wear in their turbans, in
like manner as the Persians, on account of the red bonnets in their turbans, ..."
6. The Sportsman's Gazetteer and General Guide: The Game Animals, Birds and by Charles Hallock (1878)
"Snipe, yellow legs, dowitchers, plover, brant, teal, wood ducks, black ducks,
greenheads, and other birds afford excellent sport. Hate in,HI's Point is much ..."
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