drumfish

Plural: drumfish, drumfishes

Noun

• A fish that produces a drumming sound.
• small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
• Any fish of the family Sciaenidae; they make a loud noise by means of an air bladder.

Examples

• He netted a big score with ’DRUMFISH’, a word as elusive as the fish itself.

Synonyms

drum, sciaenid