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BULLHEAD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States

Synonyms:

bullhead; bullhead catfish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bullhead" is a kind of...):

catfish; siluriform fish (any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bullhead"):

Ameiurus Melas; horned pout; hornpout; pout (catfish common in eastern United States)

brown bullhead (freshwater catfish of eastern United States)

Holonyms ("bullhead" is a member of...):

Ameiurus; genus Ameiurus (type genus of the Ameiuridae: bullhead catfishes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bullhead" is a kind of...):

sculpin (any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths)

Holonyms ("bullhead" is a member of...):

Cottus; genus Cottus (type genus of the Cottidae: sculpins)

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