striped bass

[bas]

striped bass

[bas]
noun
an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
Also called striper.


Origin:
1810–20, Americanism
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To striped bass

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Striped bass is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
WordNet
striped bass

noun
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 
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature