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Flathead

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Flat·head  (flthd)
n. pl. Flathead or Flat·heads
1.
a. A Native American people inhabiting western Montana and northern Idaho, now located principally on Flathead Lake.
b. A member of this people.
c. The Salishan language of the Flathead.
2. See Interior Salish.
[Translation of French Têtes-Plates, flat heads, translation of a name used by neighboring tribes (from the fact that the Flathead did not ornamentally taper the skull as neighboring peoples did).]
flathead [ˈflætˌhɛd]
n pl -head, -heads
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any Pacific scorpaenoid food fish of the family Platycephalidae, which resemble gurnards
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Noun1.Flatheadflathead - food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards
scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish - fishes having the head armored with bony plates
family Platycephalidae, Platycephalidae - scorpaenoid flatheads
2.flathead - pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
family Percophidae, Percophidae - percoid flatheads


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About a year's pressure is sufficient to produce the desired effect, at the end of which time the child emerges from its bandages a complete flathead, and continues so through life.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
This animal is commonly called the mountain sheep, and is often confounded with another animal, the "woolly sheep," found more to the northward, about the country of the Flatheads.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
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