hammerhead

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1. The head of a hammer.

2. Any of several predatory sharks of the genus Sphyrna, having the sides of the head elongated into fleshy extensions with the eyes at the ends.

3. A wading bird (Scopus umbretta) of Africa and southwest Asia, having brown plumage, a large bladelike bill, and a long backward-pointing crest. Also called hammerkop, umbrette.

4. An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus), the male of which has a distinctive enlarged head.

hammerhead [ˈhæməˌhɛd]

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any shark of the genus Sphyrna and family Sphyrnidae, having a flattened hammer-shaped head

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a heavily built tropical African wading bird, Scopus umbretta, related to the herons, having a dark plumage and a long backward-pointing crest: family Scopidae, order Ciconiiformes

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a large African fruit bat, Hypsignathus monstrosus, with a large square head and hammer-shaped muzzle

hammerheaded adj

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Noun	1.	hammerhead - a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person - a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!"
	2.	hammerhead - the striking part of a hammer hammer - a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking head - the striking part of a tool; "the head of the hammer" peen - the part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes)
	3.	hammerhead - medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous hammerhead shark shark - any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales genus Sphyrna, Sphyrna - type genus of the Sphyrnidae smooth hammerhead, Sphyrna zygaena - fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver smalleye hammerhead, Sphyrna tudes - fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver bonnet shark, bonnethead, shovelhead, Sphyrna tiburo - small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries

Translations

hammerhead [ˈhæməhed] N (= shark) → pez m martillo

hammerhead

n (= shark) → Hammerhai m; (of hammer) → Hammerkopf m

hammerhead [ˈhæməˌhɛd] n (shark) → pesce m martello inv

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Balance fish bonnet shark bonnethead broad hatchet dumbass genus Sphyrna Hammer fish Hammer-headed shark hammerhead shark hammerkop lunkhead peen shark shithead shovelhead smalleye hammerhead smooth hammerhead Sphyrna Sphyrna tiburo	He met with more adventures than can be told, and narrowly escaped being caught by the Basking Shark, and the Spotted Shark, and the Hammerhead, and he met all the untrustworthy ruffians that loaf up and down the seas, and the heavy polite fish, and the scarlet spotted scallops that are moored in one place for hundreds of years, and grow very proud of it; but he never met Sea Cow, and he never found an island that he could fancy. The Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context All I've ever seen of the great Land of Oz, Unc dear, is the view of that mountain over at the south, where they say the Hammerheads live--who won't let anybody go by them--and that mountain at the north, where they say nobody lives. The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context It was a real grief to me to crush under my feet the brilliant specimens of molluscs which strewed the ground by thousands, of hammerheads, donaciae (veritable bounding shells), of staircases, and red helmet-shells, angel-wings, and many others produced by this inexhaustible ocean. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context	hammer drill Hammer fish Hammer hardening hammer home hammer in Hammer lock hammer nose hammer out hammer oyster hammer price Hammer shell hammer throw Hammer-beam Hammer-dressed Hammer-harden Hammer-headed shark Hammer-less hammer-shaped Hammerable hammerbeam Hammercloth hammered hammered dulcimer Hammerer Hammerfest hammerhead hammerhead shark hammering hammerkop hammerless hammerlock Hammerman Hammersmith and Fulham Hammerstein Hammerstein II hammerstone hammertoe Hammett hamming Hammochrysos hammock Hammock girtline Hammock nettings Hammond Hammond organ Hammurabi Hammurapi hammy Hamose Hampden hamper	hammered away hammered away hammered away hammered away hammered dulcimer hammered dulcimer Hammered dulcimers Hammered dulcimers hammered glass hammered home hammered home hammered home hammered home hammered into hammered into hammered into hammered into hammered out hammered out hammered out hammered out hammerer hammerer hammerer hammerer hammerer Hammerfall Digital Signal Processing Hammerfest Hammerfest Hammerfest, Norway hammerhead hammerhead crane hammerhead key hammerhead RNA structure hammerhead shark hammerhead shark hammerhead sharks hammerhead sharks Hammerhead Stork hammerheaded Hammerheads Hammerheads Hammerin' Hank hammering hammering hammering hammering hammering hammering away hammering away hammering away hammering away hammering home hammering home hammering home hammering home hammering into hammering into hammering into hammering into hammering out

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Balance fish
bonnet shark
bonnethead
broad hatchet
dumbass
genus Sphyrna
Hammer fish
Hammer-headed shark
hammerhead shark
hammerkop
lunkhead
peen
shark
shithead
shovelhead
smalleye hammerhead
smooth hammerhead
Sphyrna
Sphyrna tiburo

He met with more adventures than can be told, and narrowly escaped being caught by the Basking Shark, and the Spotted Shark, and the Hammerhead, and he met all the untrustworthy ruffians that loaf up and down the seas, and the heavy polite fish, and the scarlet spotted scallops that are moored in one place for hundreds of years, and grow very proud of it; but he never met Sea Cow, and he never found an island that he could fancy.

The Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context

All I've ever seen of the great Land of Oz, Unc dear, is the view of that mountain over at the south, where they say the Hammerheads live--who won't let anybody go by them--and that mountain at the north, where they say nobody lives.

The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context

It was a real grief to me to crush under my feet the brilliant specimens of molluscs which strewed the ground by thousands, of hammerheads, donaciae (veritable bounding shells), of staircases, and red helmet-shells, angel-wings, and many others produced by this inexhaustible ocean.

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context

hammerhead playV2('en/US/dg/dgdtdhslskdosydnd7dod3h5h5');playV2('en/UK/dg/dgdtdhslskdosydnd7dod3h5h5')

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