rock bass

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A freshwater food and game fish (Ambloplites rupestris) of eastern and central North America.
2. n. Any of various similar or related fishes.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A centrarchoid fish, Ambloplites rupestris; the redeye or goggleeye. It is found from the Great Lake region to Louisiana, attains a length of a foot, and is of an olive-green color with brassy tints and much dark mottling.
2. n. The striped-bass. See Roccus, and cut under bass.
3. n. A serranoid fish, Serranus or Paralabrax clathratus; the cabrilla: found off the coast of California, attaining a length of 18 inches.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) The cabrilla. Other species are also locally called rock bass.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a kind of sea bass
2. n. game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes