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Definition of Rockling
1. n. Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels.
Definition of Rockling
1. Noun. Any of various fishes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rockling
1. a marine fish [n -S]
Medical Definition of Rockling
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rockling
Literary usage of Rockling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"rockling, sea-louch (Molella scrap, mite, ace, scintilla. White, a. I. Of .1 white
color, snowy, frosty, vulgarit). Whit, ». Iota, jot, tittle, particle, ..."
2. Transactions by Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1894)
"THREE-BEARDED rockling ... A second for this locality was taken off the Britannia
Pier on a line, September 25th, 1890. * FOUR-BEARDED rockling ..."
3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"Its habits resemble those of the Three-Bearded rockling, and by some naturaliste
it is regarded as a variety of that species ..."
4. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1838)
"In the Three-Bearded rockling the teeth are of unequal length and sharp pointed
... The Three-Bearded rockling has about fifty rays in the anal fin, ..."
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