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sheepshead
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sheepshead has 1 sense
- sheepshead(n = noun.animal) archosargus probatocephalus - large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico; Array is a kind of sparid, sparid fish
is a member of archosargus, genus archosargus
CIDE DICTIONARY
sheepshead, n. [So called because of the fancied resemblance of its head and front teeth to those of a sheep.].
A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus probatocephalus syn. Diplodus probatocephalus ) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. [1913 Webster]
" 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."
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