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WRECKFISH
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Irregular inflected form: wreckfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks
Synonyms:
Polyprion americanus; stone bass; wreckfish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wreckfish" 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 ("wreckfish" is a member of...):
genus Polyprion; Polyprion (wreckfish)