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| bass [ bass ] (plural bass or bass·es) |
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1. food fish: a spiny-finned fish found in rivers, lakes, and seas that is caught for food. Families Centrarchidae, Percichthyidae, Serranidae.
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2. cooked fish: bass as food
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| [15th century. Alteration of Old English bærs, bears< Germanic] |
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