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white bass

[ bas ]

noun

  1. an edible freshwater fish, Morone chrysops, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainage, silvery with yellow below and having the sides streaked with blackish lines.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of white bass1

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15
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