rockfish
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- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹɒk.fɪʃ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹɑk.fɪʃ/
- (General Australian)
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Noun[edit]
rockfish (countable and uncountable, plural rockfish or rockfishes)
- Any of a large number of different species of fish, which dwell among rocks, specifically:
- A fish in 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
- A stonefishes (genus Synanceia), venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific
- A striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America
- Certain groupers, in the subfamily Epinephelinae
- Certain fish of genus Scorpaena, such as Madeira rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis), a common Mediterranean species
- Myliobatis goodei (southern eagle ray)
- A logperch (Percina caprodes), also known as common logperch or log perch
- A long-spined bullhead (Taurulus bubalis)
- A fish in the family Sebastidae, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world
- (derogatory, slang, ethnic slur, US) A black person who does not know how to swim.
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Translations[edit]
fish of the genus Sebastes
rock salmon — see rock salmon
stonefish — see stonefish
Morone saxatilis — see striped bass
Percina caprodes — see logperch
Taurulus bubalis — see long-spined bullhead
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