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rock bass

DEFINITIONS OF: rock bass

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n a kind of sea bass

Synonyms:
Centropristis philadelphica, rock sea bass
Type 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

n game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes

Synonyms:
Ambloplites rupestris, rock sunfish
Type 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
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