rockfish

rockfish is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 20 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa.
2. noun. The striped bass. See Bass.
3. noun. Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.
4. noun. An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.
5. noun. marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone

   Synonyms: striper

6. noun. marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
7. noun. the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks

Synonyms

striper

Common word forms

rockfishes

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