cockfish

English

Alternative forms
  • cock fish, cock-fish

Etymology

From cock +‎ fish.

Noun

cockfish (plural cockfish)

  1. A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
    • 2005, Roderick Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, “Life in the Nursery”, in Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 23:
      Spawning fish on the redds. A henfish will often be attended by two or three cockfish – whilst displaying ritual combat between themselves, one cock will mate, others may follow [image caption]
    Synonym: cock
    Coordinate terms: hen, henfish
  2. A callorhinchid fish, Callorhinchus callorynchus, native to South America.
    • 1996, Edgardo E. Di Gitlcomo, Maria Raquel Perier, “Feeding habits of cockfish, Callorhinchus callorhynchus (Holocephali: Callorhynchidae), in Patagonian waters (Argentina)”, in Marine and Freshwater Research, volume 47, number 6, DOI:10.1071/MF9960801, page 801:
      Morphology of the main digestive features of cockfish, Callorhinchus callorhynchus, is described and linked to feeding habits. […] The diet of the cockfish is compared with that of other holocephalans.
    Synonyms: elephantfish, American elephantfish
  3. A cyprinid fish, Hypselobarbus dubius, native to India.
    Synonym: Nilgiris barb
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