SHEEPSHEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sheepshead mean? 

• SHEEPSHEAD (noun)
  The noun SHEEPSHEAD has 1 sense:

1. large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico

  Familiarity information: SHEEPSHEAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHEEPSHEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Archosargus probatocephalus; sheepshead

Hypernyms ("sheepshead" is a kind of...):

sparid; sparid fish (spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth)

Holonyms ("sheepshead" is a member of...):

Archosargus; genus Archosargus (a genus of Sparidae)