DRUMFISH (drumfishes)

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Irregular inflected form: drumfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does drumfish mean? 

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

1. small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRUMFISH (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

drum; drumfish

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)