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BLACK BASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("black bass" is a kind of...):
centrarchid; sunfish (small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "black bass"):
Kentucky black bass; Micropterus pseudoplites; spotted black bass (a variety of black bass)
Micropterus dolomieu; smallmouth; smallmouth bass; smallmouth black bass; smallmouthed bass; smallmouthed black bass (a variety of black bass; the angle of the jaw falls below the eye)
largemouth; largemouth bass; largemouth black bass; largemouthed bass; largemouthed black bass; Micropterus salmoides (a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye)
Holonyms ("black bass" is a member of...):
genus Micropterus; Micropterus (American freshwater black basses)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States
Synonyms:
black bass; black sea bass; Centropistes striata
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("black bass" is a kind 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)
Holonyms ("black bass" is a member of...):
Centropristis; genus Centropristis (sea basses)
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