| NOUN | animal | drumfish, drum | 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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| 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 | |
| Narrower | jackknife-fish, Equetus lanceolatus | Black-and-white drumfish with an erect elongated dorsal fin |
| 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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