ham·mer·head (h m  r-h d )n. 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]
n
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 intelligenceblockhead, 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 dangerousshark - 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 |
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