sea bass

See also: seabass

English

a black sea bass, Centropristis striata

Etymology

sea (attributive use) + bass (fish)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sēʹbăs, IPA^(key): /ˈsiːbæs/

Noun

sea bass (plural sea bass or sea basses)

1. Any of various species of saltwater fish in various families, or a specimen thereof, in several families in order Perciformes

Usage notes

• When the referent is multiple fish considered as individual specimens, the usual plural is the invariant sea bass, whereas sea basses predominates for plural senses referring to fishes of multiple species or to the entire category of sea basses collectively.

Derived terms

• Asian sea bass (Lates calcarifer, family: Latidae)
• barred sand bass (Paralabrax nebulifer, family: Serranidae)
• black sea bass (Centropristis striata, family: Serranidae)
• blackfin sea bass (Lateolabrax latus, family: Lateolabracidae)
• Chilean sea bass (Dissostichus eleginoides, Dissostichus mawsoni, family: Nototheniidae)
• European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax, family: Moronidae)
• giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas, Stereolepis doederleini, family: Polyprionidae)
• Japanese lates sea bass (Lates japonicus, family: Latidae)
• Japanese sea bass (Lateolabrax japonicus, family: Lateolabracidae)
• lates sea bass (Lates calcarifer, family: Latidae)
• spikey sea bass (Hypopterus macropterus, family: Latidae)
• spotted sea bass (Dicentrarchus punctatus, family: Moronidae)
• Waigeo sea bass (Psammoperca waigiensis, family: Latidae)
• white sea bass (Atractoscion nobilis, family: Sciaenidae)

Translations

salt-water fish

• Albanian: levrek (sq)
• Bulgarian: лаврак (bg) (lavrak)
• Catalan: llobarro (ca) m, llobina (ca) f, llop de mar (ca) m
• Czech: mořčák evropský (cs), vlk mořský, mořský vlk (cs), okoun mořský
• Dalmatian: branzain
• Danish: bars (da), havbars, almindelig bars
• Dutch: zeebars, europeze zeebars
• Estonian: huntahven
• Finnish: meribassi (fi)
• French: bar (fr) m, bar commun (fr) m, bar européen m, loup (fr), loup de mer (fr), loubine (fr), perche de mer (fr)
• Galician: robalo m, robaliza (gl) f
• German: Seebarsch (de), Wolfsbarsch (de),
• Greek: λαβράκι (el) (lavráki)
• Hungarian: farkassügér
• Irish: bas f, doingean mara m, doingean mara Eorpach m
• Italian: branzino (it), spigola (it) f
• Japanese: 鱸 (ja) (スズキ, suzuki), 鮬 (ja) (セイゴ, seigo)
• Korean: 농어 (nong'eo)
• Latvian: labraks f, jūrasasaris
• Lithuanian: paprastasis vilkešeris
• Maltese: spnott
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: havabbor

  Nynorsk: havåbor

• Polish: labraks, moron (pl)
• Portuguese: robalo (pt) m, robalo-legítimo, robalete
• Russian: морско́й о́кунь m (morskój ókunʹ), лаврак (ru) (lavrak), обыкновенный лавра́к (obyknovennyj lavrák)
• Slovene: brancin
• Spanish: lubina
• Swedish: havsabborre (sv)
• Turkish: levrek (tr)
• Venetian: baìcolo
• Welsh: draenog y môr m

References

• sea bass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “sea bass”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.