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Rockfish

noun

The lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks.

Marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America.

Marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone. Synonyms: Roccus saxatilis, striped bass, striper.

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"Rockfish" Quotes from Famous Books

... passed up the valley of Virginia and rolled through the old Rockfish Gap—where once the Knights of the Golden Horn paused and took possession, in the name of King Charles, of all the land thence to the South Sea. We overspread all the Piedmont Valley and passed down to the old town of Charlottesville. It was nearly ...

— The Way of a Man • Emerson Hough

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