Meaning of Hammerhead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).
2. Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:
3. Any shark of the family Sphyrnidae, which only includes the genera Sphyrna and Zygaena, with eyes set on projections from the sides of the head.
4. A hogsucker, a fresh-water fish of species Hypentelium nigricans, in the sucker family Catostomidae.
5. A hammer-headed fruit bat, a fruit bat of species Hypsignathus monstrosus, with a large blunt nozzle.
6. A hammerkop, a bird of species Scopus umbretta.
7. A stupid person, a dunce.
   slang
8. A turn-around; a parking area constructed in a subdivision for initial access and construction.
9. A kind of ribozyme; hammerhead ribozyme.

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“Holonym: hammer”

“Meronym: hammer face”

“[The butler] joined us with a telegram for Bobbie on a salver. From her mother, I presumed, calling me some name which she had forgotten to insert in previous communications. Or, of course, possibly expressing once more her conviction that I was a guffin, which, I thought, having had time to ponder over it, would be something in the nature of a bohunkus or a hammerhead.”

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