: a wedge-shaped piercing tip usually fixed to an arrow
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: something resembling an arrowhead
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: any of a genus (Sagittaria) of marsh or aquatic plants of the water-plantain family with leaves shaped like arrowheads
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Examples of arrowhead in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebExcavations unearthed shovels, tools, spears, arrowheads and bamboo baskets.—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2024 Since 2017, Max Morningstar of MX Morningstar Farm near Hudson, N.Y., has been steadily adding arrowhead cabbage to his brassica mix.—Kim Severson, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024 See it Luckily, the teenager, Lloyd Erwin, had a passion for historical artifacts and recognized that the broken piece of glass-like material was likely some kind of tool or arrowhead.—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024 Two weather systems are moving south through the Gulf of Mexico and north around the arrowhead region of Minnesota that will sandwich Wisconsin and possibly bring some precipitation Saturday night and into Sunday morning, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Cameron Miller.—Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024 The early articles often referred to findings of Native American artifacts – projectile points (arrowheads), knives, tomahawks, soapstone bowls and other evidence of the people who had campsites here, some dating back to 3,000 years before the present.—Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024 While tools using a single element like flaked stone or a wooden stick are fairly common and relatively simple to construct, making complex, multi-part tools, like arrowheads hafted onto spears, is much more cognitively demanding and occurs more recently in our evolutionary history.—Ryan McRae, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023 Last year, research revealed that an arrowhead found in Switzerland was made from meteoritic iron.—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024 Gladstone was likely referring to the latter, which has notably faced pushback over its name and arrowhead logo.—Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2024
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