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What does hammerhead mean?

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Noun
  1. (zoology) A fresh-water fish; the stone-roller, in the minnow family Cyprinidae.
  2. (zoology) An African fruit bat, the hammer-headed fruit bat, Hypsignathus monstrosus, so called from its large blunt nozzle.
  3. (slang) A stupid person, a dunce.
  4. (biology) A kind of ribozyme; hammerhead ribozyme.
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South African white shark dive operators reportedly catch juvenile bronze whaler and smooth hammerhead sharks to use as bait.
The whale shark, the hammerhead and the nurse shark are impossible to confuse.
Hand gestures to indicate the sighting of a hammerhead or a basking shark can easily be misunderstood if they are improvised at the last moment!
Turtles, large shoals of fish and pelagics including hammerhead, sharks, manta rays and whale sharks are often encountered.
I want there to be hammerhead sharks and bluefin tuna around when my five-year-old son grows up.
I outlasted other divers and gained some cracking close-ups of hammerhead sharks, great rays and grey reef sharks.

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