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snake•head
(snāk′hed′),USA pronunciation n.
- Plant Biologya turtlehead plant.
- Fishany elongate fish of the family Channidae (or Ophicephalidae), having a large head with a deeply cleft mouth and able to breathe atmospheric oxygen.
- snake + head 1775–85, American.