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🍽️ Fish meat 🐟 A saltwater fish
sea bass

sea bass

4 2.0
A fish that people catch for sport and food along the Atlantic coast of the United States
  • noun
  • /siː bæs/
  • US
translation icon : lubina
  • The chef recommended the pan-seared sea bass as the special of the day.
  • Chilean sea bass
  • black sea bass
  • grilled sea bass

Examples

  • Tonight's The dish looked incredible, but unfortunately one of the sea bass was undercooked.

  • Fire one duck, one sea bass and a soufflé, please.

    No Reservations (2007)

  • How do you want the sea bass prepared tonight?

    No Reservations (2007)

  • We have nice sea bass today.

    eXistenZ (1999)

  • I need two sea bass.

    No Reservations (2007)

  • "Are you fond of sea bass?"

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Sorry about burning the sea bass and the kitchen curtains.

    Melinda and Melinda (2004)

  • The Chilean sea bass lightly dusted with lime!

    Melinda and Melinda (2004)

  • For dinner, I ordered the grilled sea bass with a lemon butter sauce.

  • At the seafood restaurant, they serve fresh sea bass caught from local waters.

How Tasty

tuna
213 1.0
sea bass
  • US
4 2.0
cod
10 1.0
carp
21 2.4

Surface Forms

sea bass singular
sea basses plural

Morphology

sea + bass

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 comes from a simple picture: a bass that lives in the sea, not in rivers or lakes. Imagine anglers catching a long, spiny fish off the coast, so today sea bass means this saltwater 'fish' often caught for sport and food.