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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

See all 15 meanings of rockfish

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 faces
  2. rock fall
  3. rock falls
  4. Rock Ferry
  5. rock fever
  6. rock fish
  7. rock fishes
  8. Rock Flat
  9. rock flour
  10. rock flours
  11. Rock Forest

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