noun
widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound
• Syn: ↑sciaenid
• Hypernyms: ↑percoid fish, ↑percoid, ↑percoidean
• Hyponyms:
↑drum, ↑drumfish, ↑mulloway, ↑jewfish, ↑Sciaena antarctica, ↑maigre, ↑maiger, ↑Sciaena aquila, ↑croaker, ↑whiting, ↑sea trout
• Member Holonyms: ↑Sciaenidae, ↑family Sciaenidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.