rock bass

rock bass
noun
1. game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes
• Hypernyms: ↑sunfish, ↑centrarchid
• Member Holonyms: ↑Ambloplites, ↑genus Ambloplites
2. a kind of sea bass
• Hypernyms: ↑sea bass
• Member Holonyms: ↑Centropristis, ↑genus Centropristis

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noun
1. : a sunfish (Ambloplites rupestris) that is widely distributed in eastern No. America west of the Alleghenies and especially the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region that is a good food fish though little esteemed as food — called also rock sunfish
2.
b. : any of several sea basses (genus Paralabrax) that are widely distributed along the California and adjoining Mexican coast — called also cabrilla

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/bas/
1. a game fish, Ambloplites rupestris, of the sunfish family, inhabiting freshwater streams of the eastern U.S.
2. See striped bass.
[1805-15, Amer.]

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rock bass noun
A freshwater game fish (Ambloplites rupestris) of eastern N America
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Main Entry: ↑rock

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rock bass,
1. an olive-green fish of eastern North America, about 9 inches long with a dark red iris; redeye.
2. = striped bass. (Cf. ↑striped bass)
3. = cabrilla. (Cf. ↑cabrilla)

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[bas]
n. a red-eyed North American freshwater fish of the sunfish family, found chiefly in rocky streams. Also called red-eye. ● Ambloplites rupestris, family Centrarchidae

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  • rock bass — /bas/ 1. a game fish, Ambloplites rupestris, of the sunfish family, inhabiting freshwater streams of the eastern U.S. 2. See striped bass. [1805 15, Amer.] * * * …   Universalium

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