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Noun: mademoiselle (mesdemoiselles)  `ma-du-mu'zel
  1. Small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico
    - silver perch, Bairdiella chrysoura
     
  2. A young unmarried French-speaking woman

Derived forms: mesdemoiselles

Type of: drum, drumfish

Part of: Bairdiella, genus Bairdiella

Encyclopedia: Mademoiselle