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thunder-pumper
thunder-pumper n. (a) the American bittern, also called pump-thunder; (b) the American fish Haplodinotus grunniens, also called freshwater drum, croaker, or sheepshead: in both cases from the sounds which they emit.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Haplodinotus
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > member of genus Botaurus (bittern) > miscellaneous types of
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1877 Scribner's Monthly July 285/2 The natives call these bitterns by the very appropriate if not euphonious name of ‘thunder-pumper’.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 142 The name..‘Thunder~pumper’, also used for the bittern,..is heard along the Mississippi River.
1891 E. Roper By Track & Trail xxi. 312 The gurgle and the wheeze and the final explosion of a ‘thunder-pumper’ [bittern].
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