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SEA BASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sea bass" is a kind of...):
food fish (any fish used for food by human beings)
serranid; serranid fish (marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters)
Meronyms (parts of "sea bass"):
bass; sea bass (the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea bass"):
blackmouth bass; Synagrops bellus (small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity)
Centropristis philadelphica; rock bass; rock sea bass (a kind of sea bass)
black bass; black sea bass; Centropistes striata (bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States)
Roccus saxatilis; rockfish; striped bass; striper (marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone)
Polyprion americanus; stone bass; wreckfish (brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks)
belted sandfish; Serranus subligarius (found in warm shallow waters of western Atlantic)
grouper (usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas)
Holonyms ("sea bass" is a member of...):
family Serranidae; Serranidae (marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
Synonyms:
bass; sea bass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("sea bass" is a kind of...):
saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea bass"):
striped bass; striper (caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States)
Holonyms ("sea bass" is a part of...):
sea bass (any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin)
