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Definition of Sea bass

1. Noun. The lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae.

2. Noun. Any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin.

Definition of Sea bass

1. Noun. Any of various species of saltwater fish in various families, or a specimen thereof. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Sea bass

1. A large marine food fish (Serranus, or 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. A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); called also white sea bass, and sea salmon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Bass

sea acorn sea acorns sea adder sea amenone sea anchor sea anchors sea anemone sea anemones sea animal sea ape

sea apple sea arrow sea ash sea aster sea barrow sea bat sea bathing sea bean sea bear sea beast

sea bed sea beds sea bird sea birds sea biscuit sea blite sea blubber sea boat

Literary usage of Sea bass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1859)
"THE sea bass. THE sea bass is another gentleman among his finny comrades, and he is sometimes ... 3, round Black-Fish-hook, is preferred ; for sea bass, No. ..."

2. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1851)
"THE sea bass. THE sea bass is another gentleman among his finny comrades, and he is sometimes ... 3, round Black-Fish-hook, is preferred ; for sea bass, No. ..."

3. The Channel Islands of California: A Book for the Angler, Sportsman, and Tourist by Charles Frederick Holder, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (1910)
"One day is recalled at Santa Catalina when I was fishing for black sea bass — the leviathan of these waters. It happened that I was looking down into the ..."

4. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"The name sea-bass, however, is in most general use, and is the most distinctive and appropriate. Linnaeus described it briefly, in 1758, ..."

5. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"The name sea-bass, however, is in most general use, and is the most distinctive and appropriate. Linnaeus described it briefly, in 1758, ..."

6. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1869)
"In a commercial point of view, the sea bass ranks with the tautog, and next to the cod, being consumed annually to the number of millions. ..."

7. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1869)
"In a commercial point of view, the sea bass ranks with the tautog, and next to the cod, being consumed annually to the number of millions. ..."

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