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Black bass   /blæk bæs/   Listen
noun
Black bass  n.  (Zool.)
1.
An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. The small-mouthed kind is Micropterus dolomiei; the large-mouthed is Micropterus salmoides.
2.
The sea bass. See Blackfish, 3.






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"Black bass" Quotes from Famous Books



... a source of great comfort and pleasure to them; they were now able to paddle out into the deep water, and fish for masquinonje and black bass, which they ...
— Canadian Crusoes - A Tale of The Rice Lake Plains • Catharine Parr Traill

... this continent who can afford to idle. It is a shallow lake, upon the American side stretching out into what are known as the "Flats," a vast area of wild rice with deep blue waterways through them, the haunt of the pickerel and black bass and of duck and wild geese. Upon the Canadian side, the Thames River comes through the lowlands, a deep and reed-fringed stream to contribute to the lake's pure waters. It was upon the banks of this stream, a little way from the lake, that the great Indian, Tecumseh, fought his ...
— The Wolf's Long Howl • Stanley Waterloo

... mouthed, shifty, kind of man, 'bout as cynical lookin' in the face as a black bass, and full of wind as a toad fish. I exchanged drinks for principles of socialism, and doin' so happened to display my roll. Murdock slipped away and made talk with a friend, then, when Heegan had left, he steers me out the back way into an alley. ...
— Pardners • Rex Beach



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