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wreckfish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun wreckfish has 1 sense
- wreckfish(n = noun.animal) polyprion americanus, stone bass - brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks; Array is a kind of sea bass
is a member of genus polyprion, polyprion
CIDE DICTIONARY
wreckfish, n. [So called because it often comes in with wreckage.].
A stone bass. [1913 Webster]
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