hammerhead

Meaning

Noun

• The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).
• Any of various sharks of the genera Sphyrna or Zygaena having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape.
• A fresh-water fish; the hogsucker, Hypentelium nigricans (species), in the sucker family Catostomidae.
• An African fruit bat, the hammer-headed fruit bat, Hypsignathus monstrosus (species), so called from its large blunt nozzle.
• A stupid person, a dunce.
• A turn-around; a parking area constructed in a subdivision for initial access and construction.
• A kind of ribozyme; hammerhead ribozyme.

Related

Similar words

• hammerhead shark, hammer fish, balance fish

Origin

• hammer + head