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ˈsea-bass
[bass n.1 Cf. Du. zeebaars.]
A name for various fishes. a. U.S. A marine food fish of the family Serranidæ; cf. jew-fish. b. U.S. A sciænoid fish, Cynoscion nobilis of California (white sea-bass). c. U.S. The black sea-bass, Centropristis striatus, found along the Atlantic coast of North America. d. U.S. The sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, of the Pacific coast (Cent. Dict.). e. = bass n.1 2; loup n.4
1765[see black fish 1]. 1775A. Burnaby Trav. 70 Fish are in the greatest plenty.., particularly..sea-bass. 1849H. W. Herbert Forester's Fish & Fishing U.S. 242 The Striped Sea Bass. Rock Fish, Bar Fish. Ibid. 264 The Sea Bass. Black Sea Bass. 1884Goode, etc. Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. 378 Cynoscion nobile. This species is everywhere known as the ‘Sea Bass’ (‘Sea⁓Trout’), sometimes as ‘White Sea Bass’, to distinguish it from the Black Sea Bass or Jew-fish. Ibid. 407 The Sea bass, Serranus atrarius. 1885Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 215 In the Carolinas, Florida, and the Gulf, we meet with the names ‘bass’ and its variations, ‘spotted-bass’, ‘red-bass’, ‘sea-bass’. Ibid. 223 The common sea-bass of the north, Centropristis furvus. 1888[see black fish 1]. 1900F. Norris Blix 129 There were..sheaves of fishing-rods, from the four-ounce wisp of the brook-trout up to the rigid eighteen-ounce lance of the king-salmon and sea-bass. 1961E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 177/2 The giant sea basses, sometimes called jewfishes,..are the largest American serranids. Ibid. 192/1 The genus Cynoscion includes..the California white seabass, C. nobilis. 1966,1969[see loup n.4]. 1973J. Grigson Fish Cookery 104 To walk into a fishmonger's and see a tray of sea bass is a beautiful sight. |