stone bass

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   brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks

   SynonymswreckfishPolyprion americanus

   Broadersea bass

   Part ofPolyprion

Questions about stone bass

What does stone bass mean?

stone bass means "brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks".

What is another word for stone bass?

Close synonyms include wreckfish, Polyprion americanus. 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 stone bass a common word?

stone 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.