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rock-fish

rock-fish is the alternative form of rockfish.

Meaning of rockfish

Noun

rockfish (countable and uncountable, plural rockfish or rockfishes)

  1. A fish in the family Sebastidae, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world
  2. Sebastes, mainly of the North Pacific
  3. Acanthoclinus, a genus of fish from New Zealand
  4. Scyliorhinus stellaris (nursehound), a shark known as rock salmon when used in cuisine
  5. Hexagrammos, a genus of greenling from the North Pacific
  6. Hypoplectrodes, a genus of fish in the family Serranidae

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Forms of rock-fish

pluralrock-fish
pluralrock-fishes

Questions about rock-fish

What is rock-fish the alternative form of?
Rock-fish is the alternative form of rockfish.

Words near rock-fish in the dictionary

  1. rock-climber
  2. rock-climbing
  3. rock-climbs
  4. rock-dumb
  5. rock-esque
  6. rock-fish
  7. rock-fishes
  8. rock-glass
  9. rock-glasses
  10. rock-hard
  11. rock-jumper

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