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white bass

American  
[bas] / bæs /

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.

Etymology

Origin of white bass

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15

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