drumfish

1. 1.

   small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

   Synonymsdrum

   Broadersciaenid fish

   Narrowerstriped drumjackknife-fishsilver perchred drum

Other forms of drumfish

plural

drumfishes

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drumfish

What does drumfish mean?

drumfish means "small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise".

How many syllables are in drumfish?

drumfish has 2 syllables: drum-fish. The stress falls on "drum".

What is another word for drumfish?

Close synonyms include drum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drumfish a common word?

drumfish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.