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Definition of Rockfish

1. Noun. The lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks.

2. Noun. Marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America.

3. Noun. Marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone.

Definition of Rockfish

1. n. Any one of several California scorpænoid 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.

Definition of Rockfish

1. Noun. Any of a large number of different species of fish, which dwell among rocks, specifically: ¹

2. Noun. The rock salmon, the flesh of some fish ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rockfish

1. a fish living around rocks [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Rockfish

1. 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. The striped bass. See Bass. Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus. An American fresh water darter; the log perch. The term is locally applied to various other fishes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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