rockfish

rock·fish  (rkfsh)

n. pl. rockfish or rock·fish·es

1. Any of various fishes living among rocks.

2. Any of various fishes, chiefly of the genus Sebastes, of Pacific waters.

3. See striped bass.

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rockfish [ˈrɒkˌfɪʃ]

n pl -fish, -fishes

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various fishes that live among rocks, esp scorpaenid fishes of the genus Sebastodes and related genera, such as S. caurinus (copper rockfish) of North American Pacific coastal waters

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Brit any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish Formerly called rock salmon

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	rockfish - the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks rockfish - marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America saltwater fish - flesh of fish from the sea used as food ocean perch, redfish, rosefish - North Atlantic rockfish
	2.	rockfish - marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish - any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific genus Sebastodes, Sebastodes - rockfishes copper rockfish, Sebastodes caurinus - a rockfish of the Pacific coastal waters of North America rasher, Sebastodes miniatus, vermillion rockfish - a commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North America Sebastodes ruberrimus, red rockfish - a large fish of the Pacific coast of North America Sebastodes marinus, ocean perch, rosefish - large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe rockfish - the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
	3.	rockfish - marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone Roccus saxatilis, striped bass, striper sea bass - any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin genus Roccus, Roccus - a genus of Serranidae

Translations

rockfish [ˈrɒkfɪʃ] N (rockfish or rockfishes (pl)) → pez m de roca