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bocaccio

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bo·cac·cio  (b-käch, -ch-)
n. pl. bo·cac·cios
A large, edible rockfish (Sebastes paucispinis) of American Pacific waters.

[Alteration (perhaps influenced by Italian boccaccia, ugly mouth, or the name Boccaccio) of American Spanish bocacho, from Spanish bocacha, big mouth, from boca, mouth, from Old Spanish, from Latin bucca.]


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According to UC Santa Barbara marine biologist Milton Love, Platform Gail has a higher density of cowcod and bocaccio rockfish than anywhere else in Southern California.
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