Definition of Bairdiella

1. Noun. Drumfish.

Exact synonyms: Genus Bairdiella
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Sciaenidae, Sciaenidae
Member holonyms: Bairdiella Chrysoura, Mademoiselle, Silver Perch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bairdiella

Baikal teals
Baikonur
Bailey
Bailey bridge
Bailey bridges
Baileys
Baillarger's bands
Baillarger's lines
Bailliart's ophthalmodynamometer
Bainbridge reflex
Baiomys
Baiomys taylori
Bairava
Baird's tapir
Baird's tapirs
Bairdiella (current term)
Bairdiella chrysoura
Bairiki
Baisakh
Baisakhi
Baja
Baja California
Baja California Sur
Baja Midnight
Bajan
Bajans
Bajau
Bajaus
Bajina Bašta
Bakelite

Literary usage of Bairdiella

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"The mademoiselle, Bairdiella FIG. 461.—Mademoiselle, Bairdiella ... In Bairdiella ensifera of Panama the second anal spine is enormously large, ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"Sciaena xanthurus Gthr., pt. (nee desc.) ii. 288. Bairdiella ... on the other hand, it agrees in these respects, as well as others, with the Bairdiella, ..."

3. A Check-list of the Fishes and Fishlike Vertebrates of North and Middle America by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1896)
"Bairdiella armata Gill. Both coasts of tropical America; not uncommon on the Pacific Coast about Bairdiella armata Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. ..."

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