rockfish vs tusk

rockfish

noun
  • A stonefishes (genus Synanceia), venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific 

  • Acanthoclinus, a genus of fish from New Zealand 

  • A striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America 

  • Certain groupers, in the subfamily Epinephelinae 

  • Salvelinus, a genus of fish in the salmon family 

  • Certain fish of genus Scorpaena, such as Madeira rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis), a common Mediterranean species 

  • Myliobatis goodei (southern eagle ray) 

  • A logperch (Percina caprodes), also known as common logperch or log perch 

  • Hypoplectrodes, a genus of fish in the family Serranidae 

  • Sebastes, mainly of the North Pacific 

  • A fish in the family Sebastidae, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world 

  • A long-spined bullhead (Taurulus bubalis) 

  • Hexagrammos, a genus of greenling from the North Pacific 

  • Scyliorhinus stellaris (nursehound), a shark known as rock salmon when used in cuisine 

  • A black person who does not know how to swim. 

tusk

noun
  • A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme). 

  • A sharp point. 

  • One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life. 

  • A tusk shell. 

  • The share of a plough. 

  • A small projection on a (tusk) tenon. 

  • A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth. 

verb
  • To dig up using a tusk, as boars do. 

  • To gore with the tusks. 

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