Stone bass Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks
    wreckfish; Polyprion americanus.

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Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Serranus and allied genera, as Serranus Couchii, and Polyprion cernium of Europe; called also sea perch.

Webster 1913