noun
1. the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
• Hypernyms: ↑saltwater fish
• Hyponyms: ↑redfish, ↑rosefish, ↑ocean perch
2. marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
• Hypernyms: ↑scorpaenid, ↑scorpaenid fish
• Hyponyms:
↑copper rockfish, ↑Sebastodes caurinus, ↑vermillion rockfish, ↑rasher, ↑Sebastodes miniatus, ↑red rockfish, ↑Sebastodes ruberrimus, ↑rosefish, ↑ocean perch, ↑Sebastodes marinus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Sebastodes, ↑genus Sebastodes
3. marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
• Syn: ↑striped bass, ↑striper, ↑Roccus saxatilis
• Hypernyms: ↑sea bass
• Member Holonyms: ↑Roccus, ↑genus Roccus
Useful english dictionary. 2012.