Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rockfish

3 senses of rockfish

Sense 1
rockfish -- (the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks)
       => saltwater fish -- (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Sense 2
rockfish -- (marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America)
       => scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish -- (any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific)

Sense 3
striped bass, striper, Roccus saxatilis, rockfish -- (marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone)
       => sea bass -- (any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin)