Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A North American food and game fish (Morone saxatilis) chiefly of coastal waters, having dark longitudinal stripes along its sides. Striped bass, which swim up rivers to spawn, are occasionally found in landlocked bodies of water. Also called rockfish, striper.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Roccus lineatus, the bass or rockfish. See cuts under bass and gill.
Wiktionary
- n. A popular fish among sport fisherman along Atlantic coast north of Virginia to Canada, Morone saxatilis.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) See under Bass.
WordNet 3.0
- n. caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States
- n. marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
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PECH - marine species
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bilby Less. The only thing in he world that smells as bad as fish is fish. Sep 1, 2008
mollusque Adopted. Does that make you feel more or less fishy, bilby? Aug 31, 2008
bilby Something fishy going on here. Aug 31, 2008