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LOGGERHEAD

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas

Synonyms:

Caretta caretta; loggerhead; loggerhead turtle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

marine turtle; sea turtle (any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas)

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

Caretta; genus Caretta (loggerhead turtles)

Sense 2

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:

Nouns denoting people

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

dolt; dullard; pillock; poor fish; pudden-head; pudding head; stupe; stupid; stupid person (a person who is not very bright)

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