Meaning

15 senses
  1. Any of a large number of different species of fish, which dwell among rocks, specifically:

    (countable, uncountable)A fish in the family Sebastidae, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world

  2. A fish in the family Sebastidae, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world

    (countable, uncountable)Sebastes, mainly of the North Pacific

  3. Any of a large number of different species of fish, which dwell among rocks, specifically:

    (countable, uncountable)Acanthoclinus, a genus of fish from New Zealand

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

  5. (countable, uncountable)Hexagrammos, a genus of greenling from the North Pacific

  6. (countable, uncountable)Hypoplectrodes, a genus of fish in the family Serranidae

  7. (countable, uncountable)Salvelinus, a genus of fish in the salmon family

  8. (countable, uncountable)A stonefishes (genus Synanceia), venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific

  9. (countable, uncountable)A striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America

  10. (countable, uncountable)Certain groupers, in the subfamily Epinephelinae

  11. (countable, uncountable)Certain fish of genus Scorpaena, such as Madeira rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis), a common Mediterranean species

  12. (countable, uncountable)Myliobatis goodei (southern eagle ray)

More definitions
  • marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
  • the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
  • marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone

Translations

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By meaning 1
fish of the genus Sebastes:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
fish of the genus Sebastes:

Origin

From rock + fish.

From rock + fish.

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Forms

plural: rockfish / rockfishes

Synonyms

3 synonyms
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Word family

1 related words

See also

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