Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The shovelheaded sturgeon, Scaphirhynchops platyrhynchus, or another of the same genus.
  • noun The bonnet-headed shark, Sphyrna or Reniceps tiburo. See cut under shark, n.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun bonnethead

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries

Etymologies

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shovel +‎ head

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