sea bass
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3.0
- noun
- /siː bæs/
:
filete de lubina
- "You want deep-fried sea bass," he said.
- Chilean sea bass
- grilled sea bass
- sea bass fillets
Examples
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And we're having sea bass in a caramelised filo pastry, lightly dusted with lime powder.
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You don't get tuna while I have sea bass, sea bass and the finest king prawns.
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I think I'm going to have the sea bass.
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A simple, grilled piece of sea bass.
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And then for a main, I would make a salt, a sea bass, but I'd salt bake it.
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There's this Chinese restaurant that we used to go to all the time that had the deep-fried sea bass in sweet and sour sauce.
Fiction book (1992) -
Ocean fish populations are rapidly declining because of worldwide demand for such delicacies as smoked salmon, garlic prawns, and grilled sea bass.
Academic text (2000) -
The waitress brings a plate of lightly fried rice paper, bowls of rice and noodles, and a platter of sea bass smothered in peppers, onions, and peanuts.
Fiction book (2000) -
For dinner, I ordered the sea bass with lemon butter sauce.
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The chef recommended the grilled sea bass served with asparagus.
Synonyms
88
2.7
A fish often eaten or caught for sport
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8.4
A sea bass from the Mediterranean often served as a meal
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4.3
A dark fish with stripes that lives along the Atlantic coast and that people eat and catch for sport
A fish like a grouper or sea bass that lives in warm coastal water and people fish it for food
A marine fish like a grouper often caught for food and sport
A sea bass with dark blue stripes found on the United States Atlantic coast
A small fish that lives near rocky western Atlantic coasts and has a dark body
A small sea bass that lives in warm shallow western Atlantic waters
Small sea fish like sea bass that live mostly in the Pacific Ocean
A group of small sea bass found in the Pacific Ocean
A group of sea fish like bass that live in the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans
How Firm
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'sea' (saltwater) + 'bass' (a type of fish) yields a fish species that lives in the sea and is eaten. This is a regular noun–noun compound following common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Sea bass is also used to mean the firm, white flesh of that fish when it is served as 'food'. So on a menu sea bass usually means the cooked fish fillet.