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Definition of Shovelhead
1. Noun. Small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries.
Generic synonyms: Hammerhead, Hammerhead Shark
Definition of Shovelhead
1. n. A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.
Definition of Shovelhead
1. Noun. bonnethead ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Shovelhead
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Shovelhead
Literary usage of Shovelhead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. What comes from what, or, The relationships of animals and plants by Charles L. Abbott (1922)
"sa spiny dogfish SPHYRNA <° shovelhead H-/ ... From the spotted dogfish family
came, in one line, the man-eater, the shovelhead, and the hammerhead, ..."
2. General Foundry Practice: Being a Treatise on General Iron Founding, Job by William Roxburgh (1910)
"It is not necessary to mention here other kinds of core irons, except to say that
these are all stamped and moulded with a shovelhead; or if a thicker ..."
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