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

2. a kind of sea bass

1. : a sunfish (Ambloplites rupestris) that is widely distributed in eastern No. America west of the Alleghenies and especially the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region that is a good food fish though little esteemed as food — called also rock sunfish

2.

a. : striped bass a

b. : any of several sea basses (genus Paralabrax) that are widely distributed along the California and adjoining Mexican coast — called also cabrilla

1. a game fish, Ambloplites rupestris, of the sunfish family, inhabiting freshwater streams of the eastern U.S.

2. See striped bass.

[1805-15, Amer.]

rock bass noun

A freshwater game fish (Ambloplites rupestris) of eastern N America

Main Entry: ↑rock

rock bass,

1. an olive-green fish of eastern North America, about 9 inches long with a dark red iris; redeye.

2. = striped bass. (Cf. ↑striped bass)

3. = cabrilla. (Cf. ↑cabrilla)

n. a red-eyed North American freshwater fish of the sunfish family, found chiefly in rocky streams. Also called red-eye. ● Ambloplites rupestris, family Centrarchidae