snakehead

Meaning

Noun

• A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.
• A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people
• A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra (species), found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
• A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
• The guinea-hen flower, Fritillaria meleagris (species).

Origin

• snake + head