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rockfish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rockfish has 3 senses
- rockfish(n = noun.food) Array - the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks; Array is a part of rockfish
- rockfish(n = noun.animal) Array - marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America; Array is a kind of scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish
- rockfish(n = noun.animal) roccus saxatilis, striped bass, striper - marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone; Array is a kind of sea bass
is a kind of saltwater fish
has particulars: ocean perch, redfish, rosefish
is a member of genus sebastodes, sebastodes
has particulars: copper rockfish, sebastodes caurinus, rasher, sebastodes miniatus, vermillion rockfish, red rockfish, sebastodes ruberrimus, ocean perch, rosefish, sebastodes marinus
has parts: rockfish
is a member of genus roccus, roccus
CIDE DICTIONARY
rockfish, n.
Any one of several California scorpænoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys , as the red rockfish (Sebastichthys ruber ). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod , and garrupa . [1913 Webster]
" The term is locally applied to various other fishes."
[1913 Webster]
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