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Definition of Rockfishes
1. rockfish [n] - See also: rockfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rockfishes
Literary usage of Rockfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Beyond the Golden Gate: Oceanography, Geology, Biology, and Environmental by Herman A. Karl (2001)
"... Sea Urchins, and rockfishes Stephen R. Wing Free-floating larvae of bottom-dwelling
marine organisms play an important role in the ecology of the Gulf ..."
2. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"At the Tiburón Laboratory, biologists study rockfishes, also known as 'rock cod'
or marketed as 'California snapper,' and other bottom- dwelling fishes that ..."
3. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"... is parasitic on large fishes, rockfishes, or flounders. It usually fastens
itself at the throat or isthmus of its host and sometimes at the eyes. ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"A very large and important family of spiny-rayed fishes, the rockfishes (qv).
The body is elongate, compressed, and bears ctenoid scales. ..."
5. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"The first are chiefly and collectively known as rockfishes, although many of the
species have received distinctive names from the fishermen, especially the ..."
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