freshwater bass | North American food and game fish |
rock bass rock sunfish Ambloplites rupestris | game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes |
black bass | widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family) |
Kentucky black bass spotted black bass Micropterus pseudoplites | a variety of black bass |
smallmouth smallmouth bass smallmouthed bass smallmouth black bass smallmouthed black bass Micropterus dolomieu | a variety of black bass, the angle of the jaw falls below the eye |
largemouth largemouth bass largemouthed bass largemouth black bass largemouthed black bass Micropterus salmoides | a large black bass, the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye |
bass | nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes |
yellow bass Morone interrupta | North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass |
sea bass | any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin |
blackmouth bass Synagrops bellus | small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity |
rock sea bass rock bass Centropristis philadelphica | a kind of sea bass |
black sea bass black bass Centropistes striata | bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States |
striped bass striper Roccus saxatilis rockfish | marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes, migrates upriver to spawn, sometimes placed in the genus Morone |
stone bass wreckfish Polyprion americanus | brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks |
red drum channel bass redfish Sciaenops ocellatus | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico |
bass | the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments |
bass clarinet | a large clarinet whose range is an octave below the B-flat clarinet |
bass drum gran casa | a large drum with two heads, makes a sound of indefinite but very low pitch |
bass fiddle bass viol bull fiddle double bass contrabass string bass | largest and lowest member of the violin family |
bass guitar | the guitar with six strings that has the lowest pitch |
bass horn sousaphone tuba | the lowest brass wind instrument |
viola da gamba gamba bass viol | viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello |
bass | the lowest part of the musical range |
bass clef F clef | a clef that puts the F below middle C on the fourth line of a staff |
bass bass voice basso | the lowest adult male singing voice |
bass bass part | the lowest part in polyphonic music |
ground bass | a short melody in the bass that is constantly repeated |
figured bass basso continuo continuo thorough bass | a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played |
rumble rumbling grumble grumbling | a loud low dull continuous noise, they heard the rumbling of thunder |
freshwater bass bass | any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus) |
largemouth bass | flesh of largemouth bass |
smallmouth bass | flesh of smallmouth bass |
sea bass bass | the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae |
striped bass striper | caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States |
bass basso | an adult male singer with the lowest voice |
bass deep | having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range, a deep voice, a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice, a bass clarinet |
grumbling rumbling | continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound, the rumbling rolling sound of thunder |