sea bass
or sea·bass
any of numerous marine fishes of the family Serranidae, such as the black sea bass.
a common name for any of numerous marine food fishes of various families, such as the Chilean sea bass and the white sea bass.
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Among the sweet and savory offerings are beef square, hazelnut square, sea bass square, and quinoa square.
I Don’t Think This Is What People Meant by ‘Three Square Meals a Day’ | Elazar Sontag | August 26, 2021 | EaterRock fish, cod, or as Najmieh suggests, white sea bass or sea bass are the closest in taste and texture to this kind of fish.
Persian New Year Celebration With Author Azar Nafisi | Karen Fragala Smith | March 23, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTIn a small ramekin, a slice of black sea bass, an oyster and a few herbs limply floated in a salty broth.
The record black sea-bass, rod and reel, that has been caught here was four hundred and thirty-six pounds in the season of 1905.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries | Francis Rolt-WheelerOther fishes are bottom feeders, as the blackfish and the sea bass, living almost entirely upon mollusks and crustaceans.
A Civic Biology | George William Hunter
Those seven tons of splendid white sea-bass went into the fertilizer-plant, where many and many a ton had gone before!
Tales of Fishes | Zane GreyOne Austrian round-haul netter took seven tons of white sea-bass in one haul.
Tales of Fishes | Zane GreyThis huge black sea bass seems to have a very restricted range, for it is only known from the Coronado Islands to the Farallones.
Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast | Harry Thom Payne
British Dictionary definitions for sea bass
/ (bæs) /
any of various American coastal percoid fishes of the genus Centropristes and related genera, such as C. striatus (black sea bass), having an elongated body with a long spiny dorsal fin almost divided into two: family Serranidae
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