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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Zool.)

(a)

Any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus

Sebastichthys

as the red

rockfish

(

Sebastichthys ruber

)

. They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also

rock cod

, and

garrupa

(b)

The striped bass. See

(c)

Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus

Epinephelus

(d)

An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.

☞ The term is locally applied to various other fishes.

rockfish ‎(countable and uncountable, plural rockfish or rockfishes)

Any of a large number of different species of fish, which dwell among rocks, specifically:
1. The striped bass (Morone saxatilis)
2. The logperch (Percina caprodes), also known as the common logperch or log perch
3. The long-spined bullhead (Taurulus bubalis)
4. Many species in the genus Sebastes
(usually uncountable) The rock salmon.