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snakehead

N พืช หัว เต่า

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SNAKEHEAD

SNAKEHEAD Snake "head `, n.

1. A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.

2. (Bot. ) (a ) The turtlehead. (b ) The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under Guinea.

New American Oxford Dictionary

snakehead

snake head |snākˌhed ˈsneɪkhɛd | ▶noun a freshwater fish with a broad, heavily scaled head and a long cylindrical body, native to tropical Africa and Asia. [Family Channidae: several genera and species. ]

Oxford Dictionary

snakehead

snake |head ▶noun 1 a freshwater fish with a broad, heavily scaled head and a long cylindrical body, native to tropical Africa and Asia. ●Family Channidae: several genera and species. 2 a member of a Chinese criminal network chiefly engaged in smuggling illegal immigrants to the West. [translation of Chinese shétóu. ]