black bass
English Thesaurus
1. widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family) (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | centrarchid, sunfish, |
| definition | : | small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | kentucky black bass, micropterus pseudoplites, spotted black bass, |
| definition | : | a variety of black bass (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | micropterus dolomieu, smallmouth, smallmouth bass, smallmouth black bass, smallmouthed bass, smallmouthed black bass, |
| definition | : | a variety of black bass; the angle of the jaw falls below the eye (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | largemouth, largemouth bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed bass, largemouthed black bass, micropterus salmoides, |
| definition | : | a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus micropterus, micropterus, |
| definition | : | American freshwater black basses (noun.animal) |
2. bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | sea bass, |
| definition | : | any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | centropristis, genus centropristis, |
| definition | : | sea basses (noun.animal) |
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