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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of white bass¹

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15

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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