flathead
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- n food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards
- n pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
- A social fisherman for 30 years, he has favored this spot in Queen Elizabeth Park since he watched a bloke haul in a 60-cm flathead a couple of months ago.
- Spic-and-span engine room houses a semi-torrid flathead with lightened flywheel, two-pot manifold, headers and special distributor .
- Just like a flathead screwdriver is appropriate for some jobs and a Philips for others, proteins' different shapes help them effectively attack different disease cells.