ROCKFISH

rockfish

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

rockfish

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

rockfish (countable and uncountable, plural rockfish or rockfishes)

(usually, uncountable) Any of a large number of different species of fish, which dwell among rocks, specifically

The family Sebastidae, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world

Sebastes, mainly of the North Pacific

Acanthoclinus, a genus of fish from New Zealand

Scyliorhinus stellaris (nursehound), a shark known as rock salmon when used in cuisine

Hexagrammos, a genus of greenling from the North Pacific

Hypoplectrodes, a genus of fish in the family Serranidae

Salvelinus, a genus of fish in the salmon family

The stonefishes (genus Synanceia), venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific

striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America

Certain groupers, in the subfamily Epinephelinae

Certain fish of genus Scorpaena, such as the Madeira rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis), a common Mediterranean species

Myliobatis goodei (southern eagle ray)

The logperch (Percina caprodes), also known as the common logperch or log perch

The long-spined bullhead (Taurulus bubalis)

(derogatory, slang, ethnic slur, US) A black person who does not know how to swim.

Anagrams

• frockish

Source: Wiktionary

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Rock"fish`, n. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several California scorpænoid 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. (b) The striped bass. See Bass. (c) Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus. (d) An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.

Note: The term is locally applied to various other fishes.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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