Sheepshead

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A food fish (Archosargus probatocephalus) of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, having dark vertical markings.
  • n. A freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens) commonly found from the Great Lakes to Texas.
  • n. A redfish (Semicossyphus pulcher) of the Gulf of California, caught commercially or as a game fish.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A fish of the species Archosargus probatocephalus.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus probatocephalus syn. Diplodus probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A fool; a silly person.
  • n. A sparoid fish, Archosargus or Diplodus probatocephalus (formerly known as Sargus ovis), abundant on the Atlantic coast of the United States, and highly esteemed as a food-fish. It is a stout- and very deep-bodied fish, with a steep frontal profile, of a grayish color with about eight vertical black bands, and the fins mostly dark. It attains a length of 30 inches, though usually found of a smaller size.
  • n. A sciænoid fish of the fresh waters of the United States, Haplodinotus grunniens. Also called drum, croaker, and thunder-pumper.
  • n. (or
  • To fish for or catch sheepshead.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sparid fish    sparid   
    Cross Reference
    three-banded sheepshead    porgy   
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