smoothhead
nounEtymology From smooth + head.
1
Any fish with a smooth head.
- Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark.1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times: