mademoiselle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico
    silver perch; Bairdiella chrysoura.

WordNet

Ma`de*moi`selle" noun
Etymology
F., fr. ma my, f. of mon + demoiselle young lady. See Damsel.
Wordforms
plural Mesdemoiselles
Definitions
  1. A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. Goldsmith.
  2. (Zoöl.) A marine food fish (Sciæna chrysura), of the Southern United States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch.

Webster 1913