bighead
Example Sentences
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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
Voracious and aggressive, silver and bighead gobble plankton that other fish need.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2021
Scientists' greatest concern for the Great Lakes is bighead and silver carp, both of which were imported from Asia for aquaculture but escaped into the Mississippi River system during floods and through accidental releases.
From Scientific American • Jul. 8, 2020
The moniker includes four fish imported from China starting in the 1960s — grass carp, black carp, silver carp, and bighead carp.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2020
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.
