A voracious marine fish (Labrax lupus) of the Perch family, common in European seas; called also Sea-wolf and Sea-dace. Also an allied species…

Any of various animals which make a drumming noise, or perform an action that suggests drumming. Originally: the drum fish; = drum, n.1 6 (now rare…

Any of various perciform fish constituting the family Sciaenidae, which are capable of making a repetitive drumming or croaking noise by vibrating…

a bronze-coloured drum fish, Sciaenops ocellatus, found in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, and having a black spot or spots near the…

= drum, n.1 6; cf. sense 2a.

Now usually in form redfish. Chiefly North American. Any of various fishes with red coloration, esp.:(a) the red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus; (b) the…

= red drum n.

(a) U.S. = red drum n.; (b) Australian the two-spot red snapper, Lutjanus bohar, of the West Pacific.

Either of two sciaenid fishes found in the West Atlantic: the small Leiostomus xanthurus, which has a dark spot behind the gills, and (U.S.) the red…

any of various marine perciform fishes, esp. small or young sciaenid sea bass, which habitually school; (also) a sea bass present or found in a…

the red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus.

(originally) = sense A. 8b; (in recent use) (more fully pearl spotfish) the green chromide, Etroplus suratensis, an edible South Asian cichlid of…

The spot (a fish), Leiostomus xanthurus.

U.S. regional (southern). The red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus. rare.

A redfish; (Canadian) the sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka; (U.S.) the red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus.