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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A male mallard duck.
  • noun Any of several horseflies having green eyes, found especially in coastal regions.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as greenback, 3.
  • noun Greenness; unripeness; immaturity; childishness.
  • noun Any one of several species of American gadflies which have green heads, as the common greenhead, Tabanus costalis, and the gray-striped greenhead, Tabanus lineola.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A state of greenness; verdancy.
  • noun The mallard.
  • noun The striped bass. See bass.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly.
  • noun The mallard.
  • noun A fish, the striped bass.

Etymologies

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green +‎ head

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