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Definition of Sheepshead

1. Noun. Large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico.

Definition of Sheepshead

1. n. 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.

Definition of Sheepshead

1. Noun. A fish of the species ''Archosargus probatocephalus''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sheepshead

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Medical Definition of Sheepshead

1. 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. 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. Origin: So called because of the fancied resemblance of its head and front teeth to those of a sheep. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheepshead

Literary usage of Sheepshead

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

1. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1869)
"ere, sheepshead, and several other species of anglers' fishes, all of which are much more numerous than they are in the latitude of New York. ..."

2. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1869)
"sheepshead. At month of river, or where deep O'er mussel-beds the bay ... The sheepshead is one of the most interesting on the list of anglers' fishes. ..."

3. The big game fishes of the United States by Charles Frederick Holder (1903)
"CHAPTER XXI THE sheepshead " I shall stay him no longer than to wish, ... THE ancients long ago discovered the value of the sheepshead or its ..."

4. Sewage Disposal in the United States by George W. Rafter, Moses Nelson Baker (1893)
"THE disposal plants at Coney Island, Round Lake, White Plains, and sheepshead Bay, New York, all employ the same general system of purification and may ..."

5. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1869)
"The sheepshead is one of the most interesting on the list of anglers' fishes. It is a dinner-fish, and by many termed the American turbot, ..."

6. Carolina Sports by William Elliot (1918)
"sheepshead FISHING On the subject of sheepshead, I shall be brief, since there are few whose curiosity shall lead them to peruse these pages, who have not, ..."

7. A Manual of Fish-culture: Based on the Methods of the United States by United States Bureau of Fisheries, John J. Brice, Henry Frank Moore, Frederick M. Chamberlain (1897)
"The sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus) is generally regarded as one of ... The artificial hatching of the sheepshead has been undertaken on several ..."

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