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flathead

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: flathead

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n
food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards
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n
pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: flathead
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n food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards

Type of:
scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish
fishes having the head armored with bony plates
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n pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout

Type of:
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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