Niggerhead

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Niggerhead may refer to:

• The British term for a black iron post for mooring ships, made from an old cannon partially buried muzzle upward, with a slightly oversize black cannonball covering the hole, was "niggerhead".
• Sailors formerly called an isolated coral head a niggerhead. They are notorious as navigation hazards.
• The niggerhead cactus which is native to Arizona
• The colloquial name for echinacea, or coneflower, is, variously, "Kansas niggerhead" or "wild niggerhead".
• The "niggerhead termite" is native to Australia.
• Among some American stone masons a "niggherhead" is a large smoothly rounded stone
• Old U.S. Navy term for a small winch, a capstan .
• Carex secta, a tussock grass from swamps in New Zealand.
• Nigger Head is an island in North Queensland, Australia.
• In Lebanese Arabic, a chocolate confection with marshmallow exterior.