A name for American fishes of the genus Hæmulon and allied species (as Orthopristis chrysopterus). So called from the noise they make when taken.

any of various grunts (genus Haemulon) having a mouth which is red inside.

Any of various deep-bodied fishes of the sea bream family Sparidae, chiefly of warm coastal waters, typically silvery in colour, but sometimes…

Originally North American and Caribbean. More fully margate-fish, margate grunt. A deep-bodied grunt, Haemulon album, found in the western…

U.S. and Caribbean. More fully margaret-fish, margaret-grunt. The margate, Haemulon album.

†(a) Caribbean = red-mouth n. (obsolete); (b) a brown Australian songbird, Pyrrholaemus brunneus (family Acanthizidae), the male of which has a…

(a) a large species of catfish common in North American rivers, esp. the Mississippi and the Great Lakes; (b) any of various grunts of the genus Hæ…

(a) U.S. = red-mouth n.; (b) Australian = redthroat n. (b).