ROCK BASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rock bass mean? 

• ROCK BASS (noun)
  The noun ROCK BASS has 2 senses:

1. a kind of sea bass

2. game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes

  Familiarity information: ROCK BASS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROCK BASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A kind of sea bass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Centropristis philadelphica; rock bass; rock sea bass

Hypernyms ("rock bass" is a kind 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)

Holonyms ("rock bass" is a member of...):

Centropristis; genus Centropristis (sea basses)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ambloplites rupestris; rock bass; rock sunfish

Hypernyms ("rock bass" is a kind 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)

Holonyms ("rock bass" is a member of...):

Ambloplites; genus Ambloplites (a genus of Centrarchidae)