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Definition of Striped bass

1. Noun. Caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States.

2. Noun. Marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone.

Definition of Striped bass

1. Noun. A popular fish among sport fisherman along Atlantic coast north of Virginia to Canada, ''Morone saxatilis''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Striped 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)
"striped bass FISHING. WITH the sole exception of Salmon fishing, ... The Striped Bass is the boid- est, bravest, strongest, and most active fish that visits ..."

2. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1851)
"striped bass FISHING. WITH the sole exception of Salmon fishing, ... The Striped Bass is the boldest, bravest, strongest, and most active fish that visits ..."

3. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... The striped bass Body rather elongate; scales smooth; spines slender; base of tongue with i or 2 patches of teeth; anal spines graduated; ..."

4. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"In the North it is called the "striped bass," in the South the "Rock Fish," or the "Rock." The neutral territory where both these names are in use appears ..."

5. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1869)
"winters since,.so full of striped bass that the fish were discovered by their dorsal ... striped bass will live and increase when confined to fresh water, ..."

6. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1869)
"winters since, so full of striped bass that the fish were discovered by their dorsal ... striped bass will live and increase when confined to fresh water, ..."

7. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1875)
"CASTING BAIT FOR striped bass. Casting menhaden bait for striped bass from the rocky shores of the bays, estuaries, and islands along the Atlantic coast ..."

8. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1869)
"Casting menhaden bait for striped bass from the rocky shores of the bays, estuaries, and islands along the Atlantic coast constitutes the highest branch of ..."

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