Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun flathead

2 senses of flathead

Sense 1
flathead -- (food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards)
       => scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish -- (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)

Sense 2
flathead -- (pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout)
       => percoid fish, percoid, percoidean -- (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)