ambloplites rupestris

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   game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes

   Synonymsrock bassrock sunfish

   Broadersunfish

   Part ofAmbloplites

Questions about ambloplites rupestris

What does ambloplites rupestris mean?

ambloplites rupestris means "game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes".

What is another word for ambloplites rupestris?

Close synonyms include rock bass, rock sunfish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ambloplites rupestris a common word?

ambloplites rupestris is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.