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
• "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
• A large isolated part of a coral reef (Australian, from nautical term)
• Nigger Head Road places in the Old South where black body parts were displayed in warning.