Flat·head

(flăt′hĕd′)

n. pl. Flathead or Flat·heads

a. A member of a Native American people inhabiting western Montana and northern Idaho, now located principally on Flathead Lake.

b. 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).]

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flathead

(ˈflætˌhɛd)

n, pl -head or -heads

(Animals) any Pacific scorpaenoid food fish of the family Platycephalidae, which resemble gurnards

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Flat•head

(ˈflætˌhɛd)

n.

a member of an American Indian people of NW Montana.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

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

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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.

- Expedition of M'Dougal and David Stuart- Comcomly, the OneEyed Chieftain.- Influence of Wealth in Savage Life.- Slavery Among the Natives.-An Aristocracy of Flatheads.- Hospitality Among the Chinooks- Comcomly's Daughter.- Her Conquest.

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"Then go I and wash, Flathead; but, it is true, in the great heats I have wished I could slough my skin without pain, and run skinless."

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"Greenhorns, flatheads! I knew the first house would keep mum and let the rest of the town get roped in; and I knew they'd lay for us the third night, and consider it was THEIR turn now.

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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 latter likewise inhabits cliffs in summer, but descends into the valleys in the winter.

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Fishery Conservation--The establishment of nonnative flathead and blue catfish in some East Coast river systems is creating trophy fishing opportunities, yet these species also been shown to impact native fish and thus pose conservation and management challenges.

Effects of Hand- Cranking Cats

Chinese taxonomy of flathead fishes, Isolated spine anteriorly, Yellow marking, Phylogenetic analysis.

Morphological Re-Description and DNA Barcoding of Platycephalus indicus Collected from Beihai, China

The name flathead catfish leaves little doubt of its origin.

The catfish connection: an identification guide to the freshwater cats of Florida

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