"smoothhead" meaning in English

See smoothhead in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: smoothheads [plural]
Etymology: From smooth + head. Etymology templates: {{af|en|smooth|head}} smooth + head Head templates: {{en-noun}} smoothhead (plural smoothheads)
  1. Any fish with a smooth head.
    Sense id: en-smoothhead-en-noun-zE4NUoiU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Fish

Inflected forms

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              151,
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          "ref": "1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark.",
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