bighead

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There are four types of invasive carp: bighead, silver, grass, and black.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2023

His medley of El Apagón and Después De La Playa was enhanced with pyrotechnics, dozens of dancers and a troop of cabezudos, the "bighead" puppets that march down the streets of San Juan every January.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2023

He called the research "data-driven and robust," and that it fills an important knowledge gap in how a proliferation of bighead and silver carp could alter the world's largest freshwater ecosystem.

From Scientific American • Jul. 8, 2020

He and his colleagues modeled levels of food availability and water temperatures to estimate the well-being of bighead and silver carp when eating mixtures of plankton and non-living organic material, or “detritus,” at different depths.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2019

It is particularly manifest in the bones of the head, causing enlargement and bulging of the face and jaws, thereby giving rise to the terms "bighead" and "swelled head," which are applied to it.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.