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rosefish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rosefish has 2 senses
- rosefish(n = noun.food) ocean perch, redfish - North Atlantic rockfish; Array is a kind of rockfish
- rosefish(n = noun.animal) ocean perch, sebastodes marinus - large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe; Array is a kind of rockfish
CIDE DICTIONARY
rosefish, n.
A large marine scorpænoid food fish (Sebastes marinus ) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch , hemdurgan , Norway haddok , and also, erroneously, snapper , bream , and bergylt . [1913 Webster]
" When full grown it is usually bright rose-red or orange-red; the young are usually mottled with red and ducky brown."
[1913 Webster]
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