ROCKFISH (rockfishes)

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Irregular inflected form: rockfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rockfish mean? 

• ROCKFISH (noun)
  The noun ROCKFISH has 3 senses:

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

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

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

  Familiarity information: ROCKFISH used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROCKFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rockfish"):

ocean perch; redfish; rosefish (North Atlantic rockfish)

Holonyms ("rockfish" is a part of...):

rockfish (marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

scorpaenid; scorpaenid fish (any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific)

Meronyms (parts of "rockfish"):

rockfish (the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rockfish"):

copper rockfish; Sebastodes caurinus (a rockfish of the Pacific coastal waters of North America)

rasher; Sebastodes miniatus; vermillion rockfish (a commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North America)

red rockfish; Sebastodes ruberrimus (a large fish of the Pacific coast of North America)

ocean perch; rosefish; Sebastodes marinus (large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe)

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

genus Sebastodes; Sebastodes (rockfishes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Roccus saxatilis; rockfish; striped bass; striper

Hypernyms ("rockfish" 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 ("rockfish" is a member of...):

genus Roccus; Roccus (a genus of Serranidae)