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Definition of Drumfish
1. Noun. Small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise.
Generic synonyms: Sciaenid, Sciaenid Fish
Specialized synonyms: Equetus Pulcher, Striped Drum, Equetus Lanceolatus, Jackknife-fish, Bairdiella Chrysoura, Mademoiselle, Silver Perch, Channel Bass, Red Drum, Redfish, Sciaenops Ocellatus
Definition of Drumfish
1. n. Any fish of the family Sciænidæ, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.
Definition of Drumfish
1. Noun. Any fish of the family Sciaenidae; they make a loud noise by means of an air bladder. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drumfish
1. a fish that makes a drumming sound [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Drumfish
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Drumfish
Literary usage of Drumfish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"THE FRESH-WATER drumfish (Aplodinotus grunniens) This well-known fish of the
Middle West is also known as lake-sheepshead on the Great Lakes, white-perch on ..."
2. Survey of Oyster Bottoms in Matagorda Bay, Texas by United States Bureau of Fisheries, Henry Frank Moore (1907)
"drumfish.—Of the aggressive enemies of the oyster this is apparently the most
destructive found in the waters of Matagorda Bay. The species generally known ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"Cleveland Abbe has pointed out that there ¡6 a resemblance between the sounds ns
they are described and sounds made by drumfish in aquaria; and that a large ..."
4. Shell-fish Industries by James Lawrence Kellogg (1910)
"A harder armor in the oyster and other mollusks might possibly deprive drumfish
and certain marine snails of so much food that their ranks would at least be ..."
5. The Angler's Secret by Charles Bradford (1904)
"What difference can there be, to a person who can practically handle his tools,
in taking a hundred-pound tarpon, or a forty- pound drumfish or striped bass ..."
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