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sheepshead
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
SHEEPSHEAD
Sheeps "head ` (, n. Etym: [So called because of the fancied resemblance of its head and front teeth to those of a sheep. ] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, or Diplodus, probatocephalus ) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.
Note: The name is also locally, in a loose way, applied to various other fishes, as the butterfish, the fresh-water drumfish, the parrot fish, the porgy, and the moonfish.
New American Oxford Dictionary
sheepshead
sheeps head |ˈSHēpsˌhed ˈʃipsˌhɛd | ▶noun ( pl. same ) any of a number of boldly marked edible game fishes that live in warm American waters. [● a black and silver striped porgy of Atlantic coastal and brackish waters (Archosargus probatocephalus, family Sparidae ). ● ( California sheepshead ) a black and red wrasse of Californian coastal waters (Semicossyphus pulcher, family Labridae ).]
Oxford Dictionary
sheepshead
sheeps |head ▶noun ( pl. same ) any of a number of boldly marked edible game fishes which live in warm American waters. ● a black-and-silver-striped porgy of Atlantic coastal and brackish waters (Archosargus probatocephalus, family Sparidae ). ● ( California sheepshead ) a black and red wrasse of Californian coastal waters (Semicossyphus pulcher, family Labridae ).
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