Množina: sea basses
1. Any of various food and sport fishes of the United States Atlantic coast having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin.
2. Flesh of lean-fleshed saltwater fish of the family Serranidae; SYN. bass.
Any marine fish of the family Serranidae, of perchlike appearance. Striped bass Roccus saxatilis of the E North American coast, is the best known.