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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
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The striped bass. See Bass.
- 3noun
Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.
- 4noun
An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.
- 5noun
marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
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- 6noun
marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
- 7noun
the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
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