redfish

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of several fishes that are reddish in color, as the red drum and the rosefish.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The blue-backed salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka.
2. n. The red perch or rose-fish, Sebastes marinus or viviparus.
3. n. The labroid fish Trochocopus or Pimelometopon pulcher; the fathead. See cut under fathead.
4. n. The red-drum, Sciæna ocellata or Sciænops ocellatus; the southern red-horse.
5. n. A preparation of fish, very popular among the Malays. After the heads have been removed, the fish are cleaned, salted in the proportion of one part salt to eight parts of fish, and deposited in flat, glazed earthen vessels, in which they are for three days submitted to the pressure of stones placed on thin boards or dried plantain-leaves. The fish are next freed from salt and saturated with vinegar of cocoa-palm toddy, after which powdered ginger, black pepper, brandy, and powdered red rice are added. The anchovy (Stolephorus or Engraulis) is the most esteemed constituent, but other fishes are used in the same way. The preparation is also called Malacca fish. Cantor.
6. n. An Australian holothurian, Actinopyga obesa.

Wiktionary

1. n. Edible red rockfish, Sebastes marinus, found in North America, also called rosefish or ocean perch.
2. n. A large red edible fish, Sciaenops ocellata, also called channel bass or red drum.
3. n. A slimehead.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See blueback (b).
2. n. The rosefish.
3. n. A large California labroid food fish (Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead.
4. n. The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under drumfish.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico
2. n. North Atlantic rockfish
3. n. male salmon that has recently spawned