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UK
/hˈæməhˌɛd/
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NOUN
- the striking part of a hammer
- medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous
- a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
How To Use hammerhead In A Sentence
- Kaneohe Bay, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, is a pupping ground for the scalloped hammerhead as well as a favorite haunt of the sandbar shark, a typical, blunt-headed reef shark.
- Matthew McDavitt, an anthropologist who studies the importance of animals in culture, said that he's watched people call the sawfish everything from a swordfish to a hammerhead shark.
- The Bonnethead shark (also known as the shovelhead shark) is a small, common, timid hammerhead shark.
- The hammerhead shark family is a good example.
- There are distinct sub-groups of this shark, including the bonnethead shark, the shovelhead shark, the smalleye hammerhead, the smooth hammerhead, and the black hammerhead.
- A great hammerhead shark will reach an average of 500 lbs. at adulthood.
- To see a hammerhead eat a surface bait is spectacular, but to see two fight over it is awesome!
- Hammerheads are 45-m-long box fabrications made integrally with V-shaped supports of similar proportions bearing on the piers.
- See her, in Medea, remember the hammerhead shark, play with a cigarette, remind her listeners that their tape is running out, and obsess about another, very different Billie (Holiday).
- I want there to be hammerhead sharks and bluefin tuna around when my five-year-old son grows up.
