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Definition of 'Rockfish'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) rockfish
any of various fishes found about rocks.

2. rockfish
any of the N Pacific and Atlantic marine fishes of the genus
Sebastes.

Etymology: (1590–1600)

Definition of 'Rockfish'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) rockfish
the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks

2. (noun) rockfish
marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America

3. (noun) striped bass, striper, Roccus saxatilis, rockfish
marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone

Definition of 'Rockfish'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Rockfish
any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa

2. (noun) Rockfish
the striped bass. See Bass

3. (noun) Rockfish
any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus

4. (noun) Rockfish
an American fresh-water darter; the log perch

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