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sea bass

DEFINITIONS OF: sea bass

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n any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin

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Synagrops bellus, blackmouth bass
small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity
Centropristis philadelphica, rock bass, rock sea bass
a kind of sea bass
Centropistes striata, black bass, black sea bass
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
Serranus subligarius, belted sandfish
found in warm shallow waters of western Atlantic
grouper
usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas
Epinephelus fulvus, coney
black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins
hind
any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers
Paranthias furcifer, creole-fish
deep-sea fish of tropical Atlantic
Mycteroperca bonaci, jewfish
large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales
Type of:
food fish
any fish used for food by human beings
serranid, serranid fish
marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters

n the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae

Synonyms:
bass
Types:
striped bass, striper
caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States
Type of:
saltwater fish
flesh of fish from the sea used as food
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