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bass (2)

bass [ bass ] (plural bass or bass·es)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. food fish: a spiny-finned fish found in rivers, lakes, and seas that is caught for food. Families Centrarchidae, Percichthyidae, Serranidae.

2. cooked fish: bass as food

[15th century. Alteration of Old English bærs, bears< Germanic]
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