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DRUMFISH
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Irregular inflected form: drumfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
Synonyms:
drum; drumfish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("drumfish" is a kind of...):
sciaenid; sciaenid fish (widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drumfish"):
Equetus pulcher; striped drum (a kind of drumfish)
Equetus lanceolatus; jackknife-fish (black-and-white drumfish with an erect elongated dorsal fin)
Bairdiella chrysoura; mademoiselle; silver perch (small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico)
channel bass; red drum; redfish; Sciaenops ocellatus (large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico)
