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white bass
[ bas ]
noun
- 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.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of white bass1
An Americanism dating back to 1805–15
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Example Sentences
In those little lonely lakes you get the finest black and white bass, beauties and so gamy.
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The yellow-bass might be called a cousin of the white-bass, though it belongs to a different genus.
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Only two species of the family inhabit fresh water,—the white-bass and the yellow-bass.
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It is partial to the same character of food as the white-bass, small minnows constituting the greater part.
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White bass are common in many reservoirs of Kansas and Oklahoma and have been taken in rivers in both states.
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