northern snakehead

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   a voracious freshwater fish that is native to northeastern China; can use fin to walk and can survive out of water for three days; a threat to American populations of fish

   Broaderfish

   Part ofChannidae

Questions about northern snakehead

What does northern snakehead mean?

northern snakehead means "a voracious freshwater fish that is native to northeastern China; can use fin to walk and can survive out of water for three days; a threat to American populations of fish".

Is northern snakehead a common word?

northern snakehead is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.