rockfish

[ rok-fish ]

/ ˈrɒkˌfɪʃ /

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noun, plural (especially collectively) rock·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) rock·fish·es.

any of various fishes found about rocks.

striped bass.

any of the North Pacific and Atlantic marine fishes of the genus Sebastes.

scorpionfish.

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Also called rock cod (for defs. 1-3).

Origin of rockfish

First recorded in 1590–1600; rock¹ + fish

Words nearby rockfish

rockfall, Rock Falls, rock fence, Rock fever, rock-fill dam, rockfish, rock flour, rock flower, Rockford, rock garden, rock glacier

How to use rockfish in a sentence

A day spent name-checking monuments and museums followed by a perfect piece of rockfish and some dish with the table-hopping Fulchino always left my guests with a good feeling about Washington.
We lost Johnny’s Half Shell to the pandemic. After 20 years, it deserves a farewell toast.|Tom Sietsema|January 15, 2021|Washington Post
For cutting a road from Rockfish gap to Scott's and Nicholas's landing, 400.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson
You make the south side of the mountain near Rockfish Gap, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-two feet above Woods.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson
He ax' de po' buckrah whar he got de mule, en de po' buckrah say his brer raise' de mule down on Rockfish Creek.
The Conjure Woman|Charles W. Chesnutt

Great schools of herrings come in first; shads of a great bigness and the rockfish follow them.
The Bounty of the Chesapeake|James Wharton
We had an elegant dinner; beef and greens, roast pig, fine boiled rockfish.
The Bounty of the Chesapeake|James Wharton

British Dictionary definitions for rockfish

rockfish

/ (ˈrɒkˌfɪʃ) /

noun plural -fish or -fishes

any of various fishes that live among rocks, esp scorpaenid fishes of the genus Sebastodes and related genera, such as S. caurinus (copper rockfish) of North American Pacific coastal waters

British any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffishFormerly called: rock salmon

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