bighead
Example Sentences
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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
It’s an abbreviated wordplay on “copious” — a reference to the booming populations of bighead, silver, grass and black carp in the U.S. heartland.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2022
These new devices would be used in addition to commercial fishing efforts at the Brandon Road site that remove over one million pounds of bighead and silver carp annually.
From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2017
On some farms and in some stables bighead is quite prevalent, a number of cases following one after another.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
