Niggerhead (disambiguation)
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Niggerhead or nigger head is a word once used for various objects thought to resemble a black person's (historically nigger's) head. The word is now considered extremely offensive, and alternatives are used. Many placenames used to include the word. It may also refer to:
Plants
- Carex secta, a tussock grass in New Zealand
- Echinocactus polycephalus, the niggerhead cactus, which is native to California and Arizona
- Enneapogon nigricans, niggerhead grass, native to Australia
- Eriophorum vaginatum, a tussock forming sedge with circumboreal distribution
- "Kansas niggerhead" or "wild niggerhead", colloquial names for Echinacea, or coneflower
- Rudbeckia hirta, a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae
Other uses
- The niggerhead termite, Nasutitermes graveolus, native to Australia
- Nigger Head, an island in North Queensland, Australia
- Nigger Head Road places in the Old South where black body parts were displayed in warning.
- Tawhai Hill, a hill in New Zealand formerly known as Niggerhead
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