flathead 🔊 noun also spelled Flathead US /ˈflætˌhɛd/
Etymology From flat + head.
1 Any fish in the family Platycephalidae.
2 US , Abbreviation, Ellipsis, Informal
3 A type of screw or bolt designed to fit in a countersink so that it sits flush with a surface.
Only "flatheads" as plural
Only "flatheads" as plural
Derived terms 66 terms bartailed flathead, bartail flathead, bigscale flathead, bigtooth flathead, blackbanded flathead, bluespotted flathead, Brazilian flathead, broadband flathead, broadhead flathead, brownmargin flathead (Cociella hutchinsi, crocodile flathead, de Beaufort's flathead, deepsea flathead, deepwater flathead, deep-water flathead, dusky flathead, dwarf flathead, flathead catfish , flathead grey mullet , flathead mullet , flathead screwdriver , freespine flathead, fringe-eye flathead, fringelip flathead, ghost flathead , giant flathead, greenspotted flathead, half-spined flathead, Harris' flathead, longfin flathead), longhead flathead, longspine flathead, Madagascar flathead, marbled flathead, McGrouther's flathead, midget flathead, mud flathead, New Zealand flathead, northern sand flathead, notched flathead, olive-tail flathead, orangefreckled flathead, papillose flathead, rock flathead, rosy flathead, rusty flathead, Sainsbury's flathead, serrate flathead, shortsnout flathead, smalleye flathead, South African thorny flathead, southern bluespotted flathead, southern sand flathead, spiny flathead, spotted flathead, Steindachner's flathead, tentacled flathead, thorny flathead, tiger flathead, toothy flathead, twospot flathead, ultra-spiny flathead, Welander's flathead, Western-Australian flathead), whitefin flathead, yellowtail flathead)
Flathead 🔊 noun Etymology From flat + head, from the practice of compressing the skull in infancy by artificial means. However, the Salish tribe never practised this custom, the confusion arising from the fact that the early traders felt compelled to adopt the local Indian classification, which considered the prevailing compressed skull of the neighbouring tribes as pointed and the naturally shaped Salish skull by contrast as flat.
1 One of the Salish people of Washington state and British Columbia.
Derived terms Flathead County