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white bass

[ bas ]

noun

  1. an edible freshwater fish, Morone chrysops, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainage, silvery with yellow below and having the sides streaked with blackish lines.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of white bass1

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15
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Example Sentences

In those little lonely lakes you get the finest black and white bass, beauties and so gamy.

The yellow-bass might be called a cousin of the white-bass, though it belongs to a different genus.

Only two species of the family inhabit fresh water,—the white-bass and the yellow-bass.

It is partial to the same character of food as the white-bass, small minnows constituting the greater part.

White bass are common in many reservoirs of Kansas and Oklahoma and have been taken in rivers in both states.

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