Meaning | small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise. |
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Synonym | drum |
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Narrower | jackknife-fish, Equetus lanceolatus | Black-and-white drumfish with an erect elongated dorsal fin |
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red drum, channel bass, redfish, Sciaenops ocellatus | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico |
silver perch, mademoiselle, Bairdiella chrysoura | small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch |
striped drum, Equetus pulcher | A kind of drumfish |
Broader | sciaenid fish, sciaenid | widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound |
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