SEA BASS

Pronunciation (US):

• SEA BASS (noun)
  The noun SEA BASS has 2 senses:

1. the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
2. any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin

  Familiarity information: SEA BASS used as a noun is rare.

• SEA BASS (noun)

Meaning:

The lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

sea bass; bass

Hypernyms ("sea bass" is a kind of...):

saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea bass"):

striped bass; striper (caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States)

Holonyms ("sea bass" is a part of...):

sea bass (any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin)

Meaning:

Any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea bass" is a kind of...):

food fish (any fish used for food by human beings)

serranid; serranid fish (marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters)

Meronyms (parts of "sea bass"):

bass; sea bass (the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea bass"):

Polyprion americanus; stone bass; wreckfish (brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks)

blackmouth bass; Synagrops bellus (small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity)

Centropristis philadelphica; rock bass; rock sea bass (a kind of sea bass)

black bass; black sea bass; Centropistes striata (bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States)

Roccus saxatilis; rockfish; striped bass; striper (marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone)

grouper (usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas)

belted sandfish; Serranus subligarius (found in warm shallow waters of western Atlantic)

Holonyms ("sea bass" is a member of...):

family Serranidae; Serranidae (marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish)