Thesaurus: sea bass

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1. A large marine food fish (Serranus, / Centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch.
2. A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.
3. n. the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
4. n. any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin
5. ((Zoöl.) (a) A large marine food fish (Serranus, or Centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch. (b) A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.
6. ((Zoöl.) (a) A large marine food fish (Serranus, orCentropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of theUnited States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or lessvaried with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally,blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch. (b)A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white seabass, and sea salmon.