sea bass
See also: seabass
English
Etymology
sea (attributive use) + bass (fish)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sēʹbăs, IPA(key): /ˈsiːbæs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
sea bass (plural sea bass or sea basses)
- Any of various species of saltwater fish in various families, or a specimen thereof, in several families in order Perciformes
Usage notes
- When the referent is multiple fish considered as individual specimens, the usual plural is the invariant sea bass, whereas sea basses predominates for plural senses referring to fishes of multiple species or to the entire category of sea basses collectively.
Derived terms
- Asian sea bass (Lates calcarifer, family: Latidae)
- barred sand bass (Paralabrax nebulifer, family: Serranidae)
- black sea bass (Centropristis striata, family: Serranidae)
- blackfin sea bass (Lateolabrax latus, family: Lateolabracidae)
- Chilean sea bass (Dissostichus eleginoides, Dissostichus mawsoni, family: Nototheniidae)
- European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax, family: Moronidae)
- giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas, Stereolepis doederleini, family: Polyprionidae)
- Japanese lates sea bass (Lates japonicus, family: Latidae)
- Japanese sea bass (Lateolabrax japonicus, family: Lateolabracidae)
- lates sea bass (Lates calcarifer, family: Latidae)
- spikey sea bass (Hypopterus macropterus, family: Latidae)
- spotted sea bass (Dicentrarchus punctatus, family: Moronidae)
- Waigeo sea bass (Psammoperca waigiensis, family: Latidae)
- white sea bass (Atractoscion nobilis, family: Sciaenidae)
Translations
salt-water fish — see also European seabass
|