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Snakehead vs Bowfin - What's the difference?

snakehead | bowfin |

As nouns the difference between snakehead and bowfin

is that snakehead is (fish) a family of perciform fish native to africa and asia, (taxlink) while bowfin is a voracious ganoid fish, amia calva , the last survivor of the order amiiformes, found in the fresh waters of the united states.

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).
  • bowfin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A voracious ganoid fish, Amia calva , the last survivor of the order Amiiformes, found in the fresh waters of the United States.
  • Synonyms

    * Johnny Grindle, dogfish, mudfish