rockfish

English Thesaurus

1. marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	sea bass,
definition	:	any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus roccus, roccus,
definition	:	a genus of Serranidae (noun.animal)

2. marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish,
definition	:	any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	copper rockfish, sebastodes caurinus,
definition	:	a rockfish of the Pacific coastal waters of North America (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	rasher, sebastodes miniatus, vermillion rockfish,
definition	:	a commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North America (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	red rockfish, sebastodes ruberrimus,
definition	:	a large fish of the Pacific coast of North America (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	ocean perch, rosefish, sebastodes marinus,
definition	:	large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe (noun.animal)

part holonym	:	rockfish,
definition	:	the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks (noun.food)

member meronym	:	genus sebastodes, sebastodes,
definition	:	rockfishes (noun.animal)

3. the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks (noun.food)

hypernym	:	saltwater fish,
definition	:	flesh of fish from the sea used as food (noun.food)

hyponym	:	ocean perch, redfish, rosefish,
definition	:	North Atlantic rockfish (noun.food)

part meronym	:	rockfish,
definition	:	marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America (noun.animal)