red drum

A large food and game fish (Sciaenops ocellatus) of Atlantic coastal waters of North America and the Gulf of Mexico, having a reddish-bronze body with a black spot at the base of the tail. Also called channel bass.

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red′ drum′

a large edible drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, living in waters off the Atlantic coast of the U.S.

[1700–10, Amer.]

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Noun

red drum - large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico

channel bass, Sciaenops ocellatus, redfish

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

genus Sciaenops, Sciaenops - a genus of Sciaenidae

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A previous study demonstrated that native red drum SL protein could cause melanosome aggregation both in vivo and in vitro [11].

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