freshwater bass

1. 1.

   any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)

   Synonymsbass

   Broaderfreshwater fish

   Narrowerlargemouth basssmallmouth bass

   Part offreshwater bass
2. 2.

   North American food and game fish

   Broaderbass

   Part ofCentrarchidae

   Partsfreshwater bass

Questions about freshwater bass

What does freshwater bass mean?

freshwater bass means "any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for freshwater bass?

Close synonyms include bass. 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 freshwater bass a common word?

freshwater bass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.