SCIAENID FISH Synonyms

• a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

• the sound of a drum

• a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

• a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids

• a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

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

• make a rhythmic sound

• play a percussion instrument

• study intensively, as before an exam

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

• the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs

• an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker

• medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught

• issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise

• the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States

• large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters

• small silvery marine food fish found off California

• any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast

• large game fish of Australia and New Zealand

• widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound