English Dictionary

snakehead

名詞

俗語 アメリカ英語 軽蔑的 民族名 差別語

(zoology) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae. / (slang) A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people / (derogatory, slang, ethnic slur, US) A black person.

日本語の意味

【魚類】アフリカおよびアジア原産の魚類（Channidae科）の総称。 / 【スラング】（特に人身密輸に関して）中国系の密入国業者。 / 【蔑称・スラング】黒人に対する差別的な呼称。

The invasive snakehead disrupted the local pond ecosystem after it was introduced accidentally.

誤って放たれた外来のチャンナ科の魚が地元の池の生態系を乱した。

意味（1）

(zoology) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.

Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it.

意味（2）

(slang) A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people

Why would they want to run? -- To get away from the snakeheads. -- What's that? -- The snakeheads pay to get them here and then they gotta work off what they owe.

意味（3）

(derogatory, slang, ethnic slur, US) A black person.

意味（4）

A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead

意味（5）

A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.

意味（6）

The guinea-hen flower, Fritillaria meleagris.

snakeheads （ plural ）