slickhead
slickhead Lexical Profile
• noun
North American An informal term used by hunters to describe an antlerless deer, typically a doe or a fawn.
"During the late hunting season, the state game commission encouraged hunters to harvest slickheads to help manage the local deer population."
Any of various deep-sea teleost fishes of the family Alepocephalidae, characterized by a smooth, scaleless head and a dark-colored, soft body, typically found in abyssal marine environments.
"Marine biologists aboard the research vessel captured several species of slickhead while trawling at depths exceeding two thousand meters."
• Rhymes for slickhead
Word Origin & Etymology
A compound of 'slick' and 'head'. In ichthyology, it refers to the deep-sea fish's scaleless head; in hunting terminology, it refers to a deer lacking antlers.
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