Rock bass Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a kind of sea bass
    Centropristis philadelphica; rock sea bass.
  2. noun game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes
    rock sunfish; Ambloplites rupestris.

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Definitions
  1. . (Zoöl.) (a) The stripped bass . See under Bass. (b) The goggle-eye. (c) The cabrilla. Other species are also locally called rock bass.

Webster 1913