greenhead
nounEtymology From green + head.
1
Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly.
- Fascinated with the island’s bugs that cause Lyme disease and other illnesses, he traps greenhead flies, and plucks ticks off deer that hunters shoot, shipping bottled bugs to mainland researchers.2007 August 12, Pam Belluck, “Nantucket’s Medical Mr. Fix-It for Whatever Happens to Ail You”, in New York Times:
2
The mallard.
3
A fish, the striped bass.
- Derived terms
- greenhead ant, greenhead bream, greenhead shiner, greenhead tilapia, perennial greenhead sedge