sheepshead

Noun

Meaning

A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, / Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

scup mutton snapper mangrove snapper red snapper red porgy yellowtail snapper seabream blackfin snapper knobbed porgy cubera snapper gray snapper Archosargus probatocephalus jolthead porgy black porgy lane snapper

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Hypernyms

fish sparid sparid fish

Examples

Gunn said the sheepshead are spawning right now. Source: Internet

A sheepshead deck is made by removing all of the jokers, sixes, fives, fours, threes, and twos from a standard deck. Source: Internet

In the United States, sheepshead is most commonly played in Wisconsin as well as the German counties in Southern Indiana, which has large German-American populations, and on the internet. Source: Internet

Sheepshead are fair around the rocks on mullet or minnows. Source: Internet

Weigh master Jim Krall put his hands on over 50 fish this afternoon that included rockfish, flounder, tautog, bluefish, black drum and sheepshead, and there are some folks on the leaderboard that could be looking at some serious cash right now. Source: Internet

At its April meeting in Fort Lauderdale, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) approved several changes to the management of tripletail and sheepshead. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

sheepsfoot sheepshagger sheepshank sheepshead porgy sheepshearer sheepshearing