largemouth bass
or large-mouth bass
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.
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How to use largemouth bass in a sentence
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.
Putting the fear of bass into mosquitofish—with a robot | Doug Johnson | December 17, 2021 | Ars TechnicaTo 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.
Need to fight invasive fish? Just introduce a scary robot | Charlotte Hu | December 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceI remember I was trying to catch a largemouth bass over five pounds, and I’d never done that before.
Many ponds in the Flint Hills have been stocked with largemouth bass.
Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas | Artie L. MetcalfThe return of displaced largemouth bass and green sunfish to a "home" area.
Fish Populations, Following a Drought, in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes Rivers of Kansas | James Everett Deacon
British Dictionary definitions for largemouth bass
/ (ˈlɑːdʒˌmaʊθ ˈbæs) /
a common North American freshwater black bass, Micropterus salmoides: a popular game fish
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