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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common food-fish, Pomoxys sparoides, of the family Centrarchidœ, from 8 to 12 inches long, found in the southern United States, the upper Mississippi valley, and the Great Lake region. Also called calico-bass, strawberry-bass, bar-fish, and crappie.
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a few small birds and the fish -- lake-trout, grass-bass, pickerel and sturgeon -- constantly darting under and around us or poised motionless in water so clear that every fin and scale was seen at depths of six and eight feet.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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