typedef confusion (LINKED LIST)

Part of a code in the book has whats below. They've said that typedef node *list
and then went onto say that list head.
So what actually is head now? Is it a structure?

Code:

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typedef struct node_type
{
char data;
struct node_type *next;
}node;

typedef node *list;
list head;

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A typedef creates an alias of sorts. In your case, node is an alias for struct node_type and list is an alias for node* which is actually then struct node_type*.

So... head is a struct node_type pointer.