white bass

[ bas ]

noun
  1. an edible freshwater fish, Morone chrysops, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainage, silvery with yellow below and having the sides streaked with blackish lines.

Origin of white bass

1
An Americanism dating back to 1805–15

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