rockfish

noun

rock·​fish ˈräk-ˌfish 

: any of various fishes that live among rocks or on rocky bottoms: such as

a

: any of a genus (Sebastes) of scorpaenid fishes including many important food fishes

b

: striped bass

c

: any of several groupers

Illustration of rockfish

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Examples of rockfish in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One is just wild salmon (coho and sockeye), there’s a white fish box (halibut, cod, pollock) and a combo box (all of the above plus rockfish). —Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025

Those included black rockfish, lingcod, Chinook salmon, Pacific herring, Pacific lamprey, and pink shrimp, according to a PSU press release. —Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2025

Some years, the tribute might be a turkey, or fish; a few members of the tribe still fish the river each spring with nets for shad, herring and rockfish. —Andrew Sharp, Outdoor Life, 27 Nov. 2024

The total catches of hard blue crab, rockfish (also known as striped bass), yellow perch and other native Maryland species have declined between 27 percent and 91 percent since 2012, according to the state. —Joe Heim, Washington Post, 18 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1598, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for rockfish

• bluefish
• catfish
• codfish
• crawfish
• dogfish
• finfish
• flatfish
• goldfish
• groundfish
• kingfish
• offish
• redfish