greenhead

green +‎ head

greenhead (plural greenheads)

1. Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly.
   • 2007 August 12, Pam Belluck, “Nantucket’s Medical Mr. Fix-It for Whatever Happens to Ail You”, in New York Times‎:

     Fascinated with the island’s bugs that cause Lyme disease and other illnesses, he traps greenhead flies, and plucks ticks off deer that hunters shoot, shipping bottled bugs to mainland researchers.

2. The mallard.
3. A fish, the striped bass.

• “greenhead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.