Sentence examples for rosefish from inspiring English sources
noun
A large marine food fish, Sebastes norvegicus, found on the northern coasts of Europe and America, and usually of a bright red colour when full grown.
Also known as ocean perch or rosefish in North America and as Norway haddock in Europe, the redfish is one of a number of red-coloured scorpion fish.
The sebastine rosefishes (Helicolenus), found in both the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans, have morphological affinities with the subfamily Scorpaeninae.
Studies of their reproductive biology have shown that the sebastine rosefishes have intraovarian embryos embedded in a gelatinous matrix, and they thus appear to combine sebastine viviparity with scorpaenine egg masses.
This is Sebastes marinus, variously called 'redfish,'rosefishsh,'hemdurganaNorwayorway haddock,' and (in one of the fish markets I frequent) 'baby red snapper.' This last identification is quite erroneous, as a glance at the third suborbital bone will show, since in scorpaenids this bone covers the cheek and in snappers it does not.
