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HAMMERHEAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous
Synonyms:
hammerhead; hammerhead shark
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hammerhead" is a kind of...):
shark (any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hammerhead"):
smooth hammerhead; Sphyrna zygaena (fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver)
smalleye hammerhead; Sphyrna tudes (fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver)
bonnet shark; bonnethead; shovelhead; Sphyrna tiburo (small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries)
Holonyms ("hammerhead" is a member of...):
genus Sphyrna; Sphyrna (type genus of the Sphyrnidae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The striking part of a hammer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("hammerhead" is a kind of...):
head (the striking part of a tool)
Meronyms (parts of "hammerhead"):
peen (the part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes))
Holonyms ("hammerhead" is a part of...):
hammer (a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
Synonyms:
blockhead; bonehead; dumbass; dunce; dunderhead; fuckhead; hammerhead; knucklehead; loggerhead; lunkhead; muttonhead; numskull; shithead
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hammerhead" is a kind of...):
dolt; dullard; pillock; poor fish; pudden-head; pudding head; stupe; stupid; stupid person (a person who is not very bright)
