yellow bass

noun

: a yellow North American freshwater bass (Morone interrupta) with several more or less broken black stripes or bars that is related to and resembles the much larger marine striped bass and is native to the Mississippi drainage from southern Minnesota and Wisconsin to Texas and Louisiana

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