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Definition of Rocklings
1. rockling [n] - See also: rockling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rocklings
Literary usage of Rocklings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life-histories of the British Marine Food-fishes by William Carmichael M'Intosh, Arthur Thomas Masterman (1897)
"At certain seasons of the year young rocklings are found in vast shoals frequenting
... Later, when the pelagic ' midges' have grown into ' rocklings' with, ..."
2. An Introduction to the Study of Fishes by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1880)
"Eight species of " rocklings " are known from the coasts of Europe, ... British are
the Five-bearded Rockling (M. mustela), the Three-bearded rocklings (M. ..."
3. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"Belonging to the same group of the family as the ling, the rocklings ... as the
representative of a distinct genus being only the young of the rocklings. ..."
4. On the Natural History and Classification of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles. by William Swainson (1838)
"... form a natural succession to the rocklings: they are not so much distinguished
by their greatly depressed head and their two dorsal fins, ..."
5. Guide to the Gallery of Fishes in the Department of Zoology of the British by William George Ridewood (1908)
"... fishes there is a single barbel, in Reckling'. the rocklings the number is
increased. The commonest British rocklings are the Three-bearded Rockling, ..."
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