greenhead
noun
greenhead is a noun meaning “Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-E-E-N-H-E-A-D, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of greenhead is greenheads.
What does greenhead mean?
noun
- 1
Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly.
- 2
The mallard.
- 3
A fish, the striped bass.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of greenhead
- greenheads plural
- green head
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is greenhead?
Greenhead appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does greenhead come from?
From green + head.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).