snakehead

noun

1

: a loose bent-up end of one of the strap rails or flat rails formerly used on railroads

2

a

: turtlehead

b

: guinea-hen flower

3

or less commonly snakehead mullet or snake-headed fish

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: a fish of the family Ophicephalidae

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