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Sea bass   Listen
noun
Sea bass  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
A large marine food fish (Serranus atrarius syn. Centropristis atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch.
(b)
A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.






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— Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches • Eliza Leslie

... ground, abounding with swamps; here they turn in their fat cattle, or such as they intend to stall-feed, for their winter's provisions. It is on the shores of this part of the island, near Pochick Rip, where they catch their best fish, such as sea bass, tew-tag, or black fish, cod, smelt, perch, shadine, pike, etc. They have erected a few fishing houses on this shore, as well as at Sankate's Head, and Suffakatche Beach, where the fishermen dwell in the fishing season. ...
— Letters from an American Farmer • Hector St. John de Crevecoeur



Words linked to "Sea bass" :   bass, grouper, rock sea bass, blackmouth bass, stone bass, serranid fish, Centropristis philadelphica, Serranus subligarius, Polyprion americanus, black bass, striped bass, Synagrops bellus, Centropistes striata, Roccus saxatilis, Serranidae, rockfish, wreckfish, striper, rock bass, food fish, belted sandfish, black sea bass



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