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Flat·head F0170900 (flăt′hĕd′)n. pl. Flathead or Flat·heads 1. a. A member of a Native American people inhabiting western Montana and northern Idaho, now located principally on Flathead Lake.b. The Salishan language of the Flathead.2. See Interior Salish.
[Translation of French Têtes-Plates, flat heads, translation of a name used by neighboring tribes (from the fact that the Flathead did not ornamentally taper the skull as neighboring peoples did).]flathead (ˈflætˌhɛd) n, pl -head or -heads (Animals) any Pacific scorpaenoid food fish of the family Platycephalidae, which resemble gurnardsFlat•head (ˈflætˌhɛd)
n. a member of an American Indian people of NW Montana. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  flathead - food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnardsscorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish - fishes having the head armored with bony platesfamily Platycephalidae, Platycephalidae - scorpaenoid flatheads | | 2. | flathead - pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snoutpercoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformesfamily Percophidae, Percophidae - percoid flatheads |
Flathead
flatheadslang A stupid or silly person. Can you believe that flathead is still pushing the door marked "pull"?flathead n. a stupid person. Carl, don’t act like such a flathead. flatheaded mod. stupid. Martin seems flatheaded, but he’s quite brilliant. See also: flatheadFlathead
Flathead: see SalishSalish,
indigenous people of North America, also known as the Flathead, who in the early 19th cent. inhabited the Bitterroot River valley of W Montana. Their language belongs to the Salishan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
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Flathead (flăt`hĕd), river, c.240 mi (390 km) long, rising as the North Fork, in SE British Columbia, Canada, and flowing generally SE through NW Montana, to Coram, where it is joined by the Middle Fork (c.85 mi/140 km long) and the South Fork (c.80 mi/130 km long). It continues S through Flathead Lake, then W and S to Clark Fork River. A 78-mi (125-km) section of the river borders Glacier National ParkGlacier National Park,
1,013,572 acres (410,497 hectares), NW Mont.; est. 1910. Straddling the Continental Divide, the park contains some of the most beautiful primitive wilderness in the Rocky Mts.
..... Click the link for more information. and is administered by the National Park Service. Hungry Horse Dam and Kerr Dam are the centers of hydroelectric, irrigation, and flood control projects in the river's basin.flathead  flathead 1. A bolt or screw having a flat top surface and a conical bearing surface. 2. A rivet head that has been flattened.flathead any Pacific scorpaenoid food fish of the family Platycephalidae, which resemble gurnards flathead
Related to flathead: Flathead River, Flathead engineWords related to flatheadnoun food fish of the Indonesian region of the PacificRelated Words- scorpaenoid
- scorpaenoid fish
- family Platycephalidae
- Platycephalidae
noun pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snoutRelated Words- percoid
- percoid fish
- percoidean
- family Percophidae
- Percophidae
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