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ROCK BASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes
Synonyms:
Ambloplites rupestris; rock bass; rock sunfish
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A kind of sea bass
Synonyms:
Centropristis philadelphica; rock bass; rock sea bass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
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)
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