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Snakehead

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Noun

1. chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead

showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Snakehead

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noun
a Chinese criminal involved in the illegal transport of Chinese citizens to other parts of the world

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Snakehead

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noun
turtlehead

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Snakehead

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n.
1. Any of various edible freshwater predatory fishes of the family Channidae, having an elongated body with long dorsal and anal fins and large scales on the head, native to Asia and Africa and established elsewhere.
2. See turtlehead.
3. Slang A person who smuggles undocumented Chinese immigrants into the United States and other countries.

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