rock bass

/rɑk beɪs/
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Definitions of rock bass
  1. noun
    a kind of sea bass
    synonyms: Centropristis philadelphica, rock sea bass
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    type of:
    sea bass
    any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin
  2. noun
    game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes
    synonyms: Ambloplites rupestris, rock sunfish
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    type of:
    centrarchid, sunfish
    small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
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