rock bass

English Thesaurus

1. game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	centrarchid, sunfish,
definition	:	small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	ambloplites, genus ambloplites,
definition	:	a genus of Centrarchidae (noun.animal)

2. a kind of sea bass (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	:	centropristis, genus centropristis,
definition	:	sea basses (noun.animal)