different between rockfish vs hogfish

English

Etymology

From rock +? fish.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???k.f??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???k.f??/
• (General Australian)

Noun

rockfish (countable and uncountable, plural rockfish or rockfishes)

1. (usually uncountable) Any of a large number of different species of fish, which dwell among rocks, specifically:
   1. The family Sebastidae, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world
      1. Sebastes, mainly of the North Pacific
   2. Acanthoclinus, a genus of fish from New Zealand
   3. Scyliorhinus stellaris (nursehound), a shark known as rock salmon when used in cuisine
   4. Hexagrammos, a genus of greenling from the North Pacific
   5. Hypoplectrodes, a genus of fish in the family Serranidae
   6. Salvelinus, a genus of fish in the salmon family
   7. The stonefishes (genus Synanceia), venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific
   8. The striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America
   9. Certain groupers, in the subfamily Epinephelinae
   10. Certain fish of genus Scorpaena, such as the Madeira rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis), a common Mediterranean species
   11. Myliobatis goodei (southern eagle ray)
   12. The logperch (Percina caprodes), also known as the common logperch or log perch
   13. The long-spined bullhead (Taurulus bubalis)
2. (derogatory, slang, ethnic slur, US) A black person who does not know how to swim.

Alternative forms

• rock-fish

Translations

References

• rockfish at OneLook Dictionary Search
• rockfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• frockish

English

Etymology

hog +? fish

Noun

hogfish (plural hogfishes or hogfish)

1. Lachnolaimus maximus, an edible species of wrasse, found in the Caribbean.
2. Several of the species of Bodianus.
3. The pigfish or sailor's choice, Orthopristis chrysoptera, or other species in genus Orthospristis.
4. Percina caprodes, an American freshwater fish, the log perch, rockfish, a kind of darter.
5. A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa).
6. A pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, ranging from Massachusetts to Texas.
7. A grunt, Haemulon parra.