Define the word white sea bass"white sea bass" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Sea bass \Sea" bass`\ . (Zool.)
(a) A large marine food fish (Serranus atrarius syn.
Centropristis atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic
coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black
bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and
blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch.
(b) A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called
also white sea bass, and sea salmon.
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"white sea bass" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Sea trout \Sea" trout`\ (Zool.)
(a) Any one of several species of true trouts which descend
rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European
bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American
spotted trout.
(b) The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague.
(c) A California fish of the family Chiridae, especially
Hexagrammus decagrammus; -- called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock.
(d) A California sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); --
called also white sea bass.
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