redfish

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
Any of genus Sebastes, or edible red rockfishs.
especially Sebastes norvegicus, found in North American waters, also called rosefish or ocean perch.
A large red edible fish, Sciaenops ocellatus, also called channel bass or red drum.
Lutjanus spp., snappers.
Centroberyx affinis, eastern nannygai.
Etelis oculatus, queen snapper.
Rhomboplites aurorubens, vermillion snapper.
A slimehead, of family Trachichthyidae.
Oncorhynchus nerka, sockeye salmon.

redfish redfishes

From red + fish.

channel bass red drum rosefish rose fish Redfish Lake

Acadian redfish Atlantic redfish deep-water redfish Norway redfish

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