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rockfish

/rok-fish/US // ˈrɒkˌfɪʃ //UK // (ˈrɒkˌfɪʃ) //

石鱼,岩鱼,石首鱼,岩石鱼

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural rock·fish, rock·fish·es.

    • : any of various fishes found about rocks.
    • : striped bass.
    • : any of the North Pacific and Atlantic marine fishes of the genus Sebastes.
    • : scorpionfish.

Examples

  • A day spent name-checking monuments and museums followed by a perfect piece of rockfish and some dish with the table-hopping Fulchino always left my guests with a good feeling about Washington.

  • For cutting a road from Rockfish gap to Scott's and Nicholas's landing, 400.

  • You make the south side of the mountain near Rockfish Gap, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-two feet above Woods.

  • He ax' de po' buckrah whar he got de mule, en de po' buckrah say his brer raise' de mule down on Rockfish Creek.

  • Great schools of herrings come in first; shads of a great bigness and the rockfish follow them.

  • We had an elegant dinner; beef and greens, roast pig, fine boiled rockfish.

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