Wreckfish

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wreckfish \Wreck"fish`\, n. [So called because it often comes in
     with wreckage.] (Zool.)
     A stone bass.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  wreckfish
       n : brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around
           rocks and shipwrecks [syn: {stone bass}, {Polyprion
           americanus}]
       [also: {wreckfishes} (pl)]