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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
- Migrant pelagic include tunnies Thunnus spp., smalltooth sawfish Pristis pectinata guitarfish Rhinobatos spp., and smooth hammerhead shark Sphyrna zygaena. Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania
- Hand gestures to indicate the sighting of a hammerhead or a basking shark can easily be misunderstood if they are improvised at the last moment!
- Galápagos sharks, hammerheads, blues, duskies - all of their distinctive fins are jammed into black burlap sacks that pile to the ceiling.
- On calm days, dive trips go to the windward side of the island to search for large schools of pelagic fish: bronze whaler sharks, hammerheads, mantas and sometimes oceanic white tips.
- The week after, there was a millpond under a vivid blue sky - with matching hammerhead shark cruising the northern limits.
- It was a Z - 42 alright, with the same canards on the nose giving it the ‘Hammerhead’ profile that it was famous for.
- Migrant pelagic include tunnies Thunnus spp., smalltooth sawfish Pristis pectinata guitarfish Rhinobatos spp., and smooth hammerhead shark Sphyrna zygaena. Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania
- A hammerhead shark is fatally caught in a gill net in Mexico's Gulf of California.
- Ha! Missed again, you hammerhead halibut. Here boy, here, go get it.
- When the fishermen had had enough for the day, after around six hours, they had landed three different species of sharks - five hammerhead, ten threshers and 15 black-tipped reef sharks.
