greenhead

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noun

Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly.

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Meanings

greenhead1

noungreenhead (plural greenheads)

plural greenheads · alternative green head

  1. Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly.

    Fascinated with the island’s bugs that cause Lyme disease and other illnesses, he traps greenhead flies, and plucks ticks off deer that hunters shoot, shipping bottled bugs to mainland researchers.

    2007 August 12, Pam Belluck, “Nantucket’s Medical Mr. Fix-It for Whatever Happens to Ail You”, in New York Times
  2. The mallard.
  3. A fish, the striped bass.

Greenhead2

proper noun
  1. A village and civil parish in south-west Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY6665).
  2. A hamlet in Kingsley parish and Cheadle parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9846).
  3. A suburb of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8054).
  4. A hamlet east of Selkirk, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4929).

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
striped bass

Origin

From green + head.

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APA

greenhead. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/greenhead

MLA

“greenhead.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/greenhead. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “greenhead,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/greenhead.

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