Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people inhabiting western Montana and northern Idaho, now located principally on Flathead Lake.
- noun The Salishan language of the Flathead.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Notothenia coriiceps, a fish of the family Trachinidæ found in Australian waters. Also called
Maori-chief . - Having an artificially flattened head: applied to certain American Indians.
- [capitalized] Pertaining to the tribe of Indians specifically called
Flatheads . See II., 1. - noun [capitalized] One of a small tribe of American Indians specifically so called, but erroneously, their heads not being flattened, and their true name being Selish.
- noun A dipnoan fish, Ceratodus forstori.
- noun A snake which flattens its head, as a species of Heterodon; the hog-nosed snake or puff-adder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.
- noun (Ethnol.) A Chinook Indian. See
chinook , n., 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of the
Salish people ofWashington state andBritish Columbia . - proper noun Their Salishan language.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
- noun food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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