STRIPED BASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does striped bass mean? 

• STRIPED BASS (noun)
  The noun STRIPED BASS has 2 senses:

1. caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States

2. marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone

  Familiarity information: STRIPED BASS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRIPED BASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

striped bass; striper

Hypernyms ("striped bass" is a kind of...):

bass; sea bass (the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Roccus saxatilis; rockfish; striped bass; striper

Hypernyms ("striped bass" is a kind of...):

sea bass (any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin)

Holonyms ("striped bass" is a member of...):

genus Roccus; Roccus (a genus of Serranidae)