ocean perch
chiefly US
noun
1Any of three closely related North Atlantic species, the redfish Sebastes marinus, the deepwater redfish S. mentella, and the Labrador redfish S. fasciatus.
2(In full Pacific ocean perch) the North Pacific species S. alutus.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in The New York Times.
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