bighead

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

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

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

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 Charles B. Michener

Carp are voracious eaters — adult bigheads and silvers can consume up to 40% of their body weight in a day — and easily out-compete native species, wreaking havoc on aquatic ecosystems.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

The carp are voracious eaters — adult bigheads and silvers can consume up to 40% of their bodyweight in a day — and easily out-compete native species, wreaking havoc on aquatic ecosystems.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2023

This is a song for all you bigheads out there who think that disco music is lower than the irrelevant musical gibberish and tired platitudes that you try to impress your parents with.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2010

The bigheads learn best, but they're slow swimmers.

From A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay