DRUMFISH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: drumfishes

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:

Nouns denoting animals

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 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)