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SEA BASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sea bass mean?
• SEA BASS (noun)
The noun SEA BASS has 2 senses:
1. the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
2. any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin
Familiarity information: SEA BASS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
bass; sea bass
Hypernyms ("sea bass" is a kind of...):
saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea bass"):
striped bass; striper (caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States)
Holonyms ("sea bass" is a part of...):
sea bass (any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("sea bass" is a kind of...):
food fish (any fish used for food by human beings)
serranid; serranid fish (marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters)
Meronyms (parts of "sea bass"):
bass; sea bass (the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea bass"):
blackmouth bass; Synagrops bellus (small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity)
Centropristis philadelphica; rock bass; rock sea bass (a kind of sea bass)
black bass; black sea bass; Centropistes striata (bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States)
Roccus saxatilis; rockfish; striped bass; striper (marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone)
Polyprion americanus; stone bass; wreckfish (brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks)
belted sandfish; Serranus subligarius (found in warm shallow waters of western Atlantic)
grouper (usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas)
Holonyms ("sea bass" is a member of...):
family Serranidae; Serranidae (marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish)
Context examples
Barramundi or Asian sea bass, an important commercial fish, are born at sea and migrate as juveniles and adults to fresh, protected areas.
(Fish larvae lose their way to safety in acidified oceans, SciDev.Net)
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