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adjective
rareIn the names of animals: having a head with long snout and jaws like those of a pike; especially in "pike-headed alligator" noun Obsolete the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Samuel Goodrich (1793–1860). From pike + headed.
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