rock salmon

1. 1.

   any of several coarse fishes (such as dogfish or wolffish) when used as food

   Broaderfish

   United Kingdom

Questions about rock salmon

What does rock salmon mean?

rock salmon means "any of several coarse fishes (such as dogfish or wolffish) when used as food".

Is rock salmon a common word?

rock salmon 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.