ROCCUS SAXATILIS

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Meaning:

Marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone

Synonyms:

Roccus saxatilis; rockfish; striped bass; striper

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Roccus saxatilis" is a kind of...):

sea bass (any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin)

Holonyms ("Roccus saxatilis" is a member of...):

genus Roccus; Roccus (a genus of Serranidae)

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