black bass

Questions about black bass

What does black bass mean?

black bass means "bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for black bass?

Close synonyms include black sea bass, Centropistes striata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black bass a common word?

black bass is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.