white bass

white bass
noun
1. : a No. American freshwater food fish (Lepibema chrysops) that is abundant in the region of the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi and very similar to the yellow bass but shorter and more compressed

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/bas/
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. Also called silver bass.
[1805-15, Amer.]

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white bass,
a freshwater food fish of the Great Lakes region from Kansas to New York, silvery in color with blackish lines along the sides and yellow underneath; silver bass.

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[bās]
n. a North American freshwater bass with dark horizontal stripes. ● Morone chrysops, family Percichthyidae

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