drumfish

Definitions 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
   synonyms: drum

   types:

   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

   Sciaenops ocellatus, channel bass, red drum, redfish

   large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico

   type of:

   sciaenid, sciaenid fish

   widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound