HAMMERHEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hammerhead mean? 

• HAMMERHEAD (noun)
  The noun HAMMERHEAD has 3 senses:

1. a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence

2. the striking part of a hammer

3. medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous

  Familiarity information: HAMMERHEAD used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAMMERHEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blockhead; bonehead; dumbass; dunce; dunderhead; fuckhead; hammerhead; knucklehead; loggerhead; lunkhead; muttonhead; numskull; shithead

Hypernyms ("hammerhead" is a kind of...):

dolt; dullard; pillock; poor fish; pudden-head; pudding head; stupe; stupid; stupid person (a person who is not very bright)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The striking part of a hammer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hammerhead" is a kind of...):

head (the striking part of a tool)

Meronyms (parts of "hammerhead"):

peen (the part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes))

Holonyms ("hammerhead" is a part of...):

hammer (a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

hammerhead; hammerhead shark

Hypernyms ("hammerhead" is a kind of...):

shark (any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hammerhead"):

smooth hammerhead; Sphyrna zygaena (fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver)

smalleye hammerhead; Sphyrna tudes (fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver)

bonnet shark; bonnethead; shovelhead; Sphyrna tiburo (small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries)

Holonyms ("hammerhead" is a member of...):

genus Sphyrna; Sphyrna (type genus of the Sphyrnidae)

 Context examples 

Threatened social interest species include a number of stingless bees (known locally as uruçu, mandaçaia, and jandaíra), swamp ghost crabs, blue land crabs, a freshwater shrimp locally known as pitu, mangrove root crabs, catfish, yellowmouth groupers, jewfish, hammerhead sharks, among others.

(Over 300 animal species threatened in Bahia, Agência Brasil)