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Perciform vs Snakehead - What's the difference?

perciform | snakehead |

As nouns the difference between perciform and snakehead

is that perciform is such a fish while snakehead is (fish) a family of perciform fish native to africa and asia, (taxlink) .

As an adjective perciform

is of or pertaining to any of very many fish, of the order perciformes , that have fin spines, a swim bladder without a duct, usually ctenoid scales, and 17 or fewer caudal fin rays.

perciform

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to any of very many fish, of the order Perciformes , that have fin spines, a swim bladder without a duct, usually ctenoid scales, and 17 or fewer caudal fin rays.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Such a fish
  • Anagrams

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    snakehead

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia snakehead) (en noun)
  • (fish) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, (taxlink) .
  • (slang) A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people
  • *2008 , , 00:33:10
  • 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.
  • A showy perennial plant, (taxlink), found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead
  • 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.
  • The Guinea-hen flower, (taxlink).