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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A Native American people inhabiting western Montana and northern Idaho, now located principally on Flathead Lake.
- n. A member of this people.
- n. The Salishan language of the Flathead.
- n. See Interior Salish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having an artificially flattened head: applied to certain American Indians. The deformity is produced in infancy by appliances causing pressure upon the skull from before backward (the more common method), making it flat and retreating in front and protuberant behind, or from above downward, making it flat at the top. It disappears partially or wholly with advance of age, and is said not to injure the intellect. The practice now survives chiefly in the northwest, but was formerly common over both North and South America.
- [capitalized] Pertaining to the tribe of Indians specifically called Flatheads. See II., 1.
- n. [capitalized] One of a small tribe of American Indians specifically so called, but erroneously, their heads not being flattened, and their true name being Selish. The original home of the Flatheads was in the valley of the Columbia river, but a part of them now live on a reservation in northwestern Montana. They are all nominally Christianized and civilized.
- n. A dipnoan fish, Ceratodus forstori.
- n. A snake which flattens its head, as a species of Heterodon; the hog-nosed snake or puff-adder.
- n. Notothenia coriiceps, a fish of the family Trachinidæ found in Australian waters. Also called Maori-chief.
Wiktionary
- n. One of the Salish people of Washington state and British Columbia.
- n. Their Salishan language.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.
- n. (Ethnol.) A Chinook Indian. See chinook, n., 1.
WordNet 3.0
- n. pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
- n. food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards
Etymologies
- 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). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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