WRECKFISH (wreckfishes)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: wreckfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does wreckfish mean? 

• WRECKFISH (noun)
  The noun WRECKFISH has 1 sense:

1. brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks

  Familiarity information: WRECKFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRECKFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Polyprion americanus; stone bass; wreckfish

Hypernyms ("wreckfish" is a kind of...):

sea bass (any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin)

Holonyms ("wreckfish" is a member of...):

genus Polyprion; Polyprion (wreckfish)