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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various groupers, cods, and other marine fishes of rocky habitats.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See cod and rockfish.
  • noun In California, any scorpænoid fish of the genera Sebastodes and Sebastichthys; also, occasionally applied, there or elsewhere, to fishes of similar form; in New Zealand, a pteropsaroid fish, Parapercis colias.
  • noun An Australian fish, Epinephelus dæmeli, of the family Serranidæ: chiefly of New South Wales.
  • noun In California, Sebastichthys ruber rimus and other related species, bright red in color.

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