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

The artwork features a traditional fishing junk, abalone and rockfish, and elements of Chinese ink art, and there are QR codes on the surrounding sidewalks to learn more about the story behind the installation. —Kate Murphy, Axios, 2 May 2025

Cancino also swaps out items on a moment’s notice if, say, the rockfish is fresher that day than the sea bass. —Liz Humphreys, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2025

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

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