bighead
Example Sentences
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His medley of El Apagón and Después De La Playa was enhanced with pyrotechnics, dozens of dancers and a troop of cabezudos, the "bighead" puppets that march down the streets of San Juan every January.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2023
Scientists' greatest concern for the Great Lakes is bighead and silver carp, both of which were imported from Asia for aquaculture but escaped into the Mississippi River system during floods and through accidental releases.
From Scientific American • Jul. 8, 2020
Fish and Wildlife Service, and other partners came back from water sampling trips on the Chicago waterways with a record high number of positive DNA hits for silver and bighead carp.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2020
He and his colleagues modeled levels of food availability and water temperatures to estimate the well-being of bighead and silver carp when eating mixtures of plankton and non-living organic material, or “detritus,” at different depths.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2019
On some farms and in some stables bighead is quite prevalent, a number of cases following one after another.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
