largemouth bass

or large-mouth bass

[ lahrj-mouth bas ]

noun

1. a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.

largemouth bass

/ ˈlɑːdʒˌmaʊθ ˈbæs /

noun

1. a common North American freshwater black bass, Micropterus salmoides: a popular game fish

Word History and Origins

Origin of largemouth bass¹

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80; large + mouth

Example Sentences

Back in 2019, Giovanni Polverino—currently a post-doc at the University of Western Australia—and his colleagues developed a mechanical largemouth bass that proved to be effective in scaring mosquitofish.

From Ars Technica

To test if this would work, they made a robotic predator that looks and moves like a largemouth bass, which is the mosquitofish’s main natural predator.

From Popular-Science

I remember I was trying to catch a largemouth bass over five pounds, and I’d never done that before.

From Outside Online

Many ponds in the Flint Hills have been stocked with largemouth bass.

From Project Gutenberg

The return of displaced largemouth bass and green sunfish to a "home" area.

From Project Gutenberg