Definition of rockfish Rockfish
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What does rockfish mean?
WordNet
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| 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 | ||
| saltwater fish flesh of fish from the sea used as food | ||
| rockfish marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America | ||
| rockfish - marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone | ||
| striped bass, striper, Roccus saxatilis | ||
| 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 | ||
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Wiktionary 
- rockfish (Noun)
Any of a large number of different species of fish, which dwell among rocks, specifically. - rockfish (Noun)
The striped bass . - rockfish (Noun)
The logperch Percina caprodes, also known as the common logperch or log perch . - rockfish (Noun)
The long-spined bullhead . - rockfish (Noun)
The rock salmon , the flesh of some fish.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- rockfish (n.)
Any one of several California scorpaenoid 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. - rockfish (n.)
The striped bass. See Bass. - rockfish (n.)
Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus. - rockfish (n.)
An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.
