rockfish

Meanings

1. Any of a large number of different species of fish, which dwell among rocks, specifically:
2. A fish in the family Sebastidae, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world
3. Sebastes, mainly of the North Pacific
4. Acanthoclinus, a genus of fish from New Zealand
5. Scyliorhinus stellaris (nursehound), a shark known as rock salmon when used in cuisine
6. Hexagrammos, a genus of greenling from the North Pacific
7. Hypoplectrodes, a genus of fish in the family Serranidae
8. Salvelinus, a genus of fish in the salmon family
9. A stonefishes (genus Synanceia), venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific
10. A striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America
11. Certain groupers, in the subfamily Epinephelinae
12. Certain fish of genus Scorpaena, such as Madeira rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis), a common Mediterranean species

Etymology

From rock + fish.

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