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☆ sea bass

  1. any of a large family (Serranidae) of spiny-finned, predatory, marine percoid fishes; esp., a dark food fish (Centropristes striata) with large scales and a wide mouth, found along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
  2. any of various similar fishes, as a white drum (Atractoscion nobilis) of the warm waters along the California coast

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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