Definition of Sebastodes

1. Noun. Rockfishes.

Exact synonyms: Genus Sebastodes
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Scorpaenidae, Scorpaenidae
Member holonyms: Rockfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sebastodes

Seanad
Seanad Eireann
Seanad Éireann
Seans
Searsport
Seashore
Seashore test
Seasider
Seattle
Seattle Slew
Sebago Lake
Sebastian
Sebastian Cabot
Sebastian Vizcaino
Sebastiana
Sebastodes (current term)
Sebastodes caurinus
Sebastodes marinus
Sebastodes miniatus
Sebastodes ruberrimus
Sebastopol
Sebileau
Sec
Sec.
SecDef
Secale cereale
Secchi disk
Secchi disks
Seceder

Literary usage of Sebastodes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"Sebastodes levis : Banded Pink Rockfish. ... Sebastodes chrysomelas : Black and Yellow Rockfish. ... Sebastodes nigrocinctus : Black-banded Rockfish. ..."

2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Monterey, Cal. nigrofasciatus, with very rough head and bright red body with broad cross-bands of black. Of the Japanese species the commonest, Sebastodes ..."

3. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"Of the California species the following are of most note: Sebastodes paucispinis, the Bocaccio of the fishermen, from its large mouth, is an elongate fish, ..."

4. A Check-list of the Fishes and Fishlike Vertebrates of North and Middle America by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1896)
"Sebastodes alutus (Gilbert). Pacific Coast of America, from Hering Sea to Santa ... Mus. 1890, 76, Santa Barbara Islands, California. 2216. Sebastodes ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The genus Sebastodes contains more than 50 species of Pacific Coast ... Sebastodes flavidus, the yellow-tail rockfish, reaching a length of two feet, ..."

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