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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.

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[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).]

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flathead

Noun

a common Australian flatfish

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	flathead - 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