sea-bass

Should you have occasion to tonsure a snapper or sea-bass, slicing off the top of its skull just above the eyes, you might take a moment to remove the two largest otoliths (there are, as a rule, six in all, three on each side) from their velvet seats to the right and left of the brain stem.

Boing Boing 2009

Based on delicate harmonies, the menu includes a sushi twist of sea-bass rolled in vine leaves; escabeche of red mullet with capers, olives and fresh greens; and crayfish and pumpkin risotto with red saffron from the northern Greek village of Kozani, a world-renown producer of the spice.

Not Your Typical Greek Salad Christine Pirovolakis 2011

By the time I left (happily champagned), the party was packed -- tuxedos galore -- and the food had turned from animated to spectacular as well: dishes of seafood risotto, creamed fettuccini and fresh sea-bass circulated in white bowls on silver trays to the chattering crowd below the balloons by the moonlit sea.

Karin Badt: Cannes Glamour: Opening Pixar Party 2009

Mr. Canales spoons the confit over baked sea-bass filet, and the combination is perfection.

Tomatoes' Sweet Comeback 2008

But items like airplanes, financial services, technology, wine and beer, and even Chilean sea-bass have added depth and diversity to the region's economy.

The Latin Beat Goes On 2008

Hate to break it to you Steve, but there are no sharks in the tank, just mutated sea-bass.

Another leaker identified and captured 2007

There's a lot of sea-bass fishing up around Catalina.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

Jew-fish and black sea-bass of over 400 lb have been taken on rod and line, and there are many other fine sporting fish of large size which give the angler exciting hours on the reefs of

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

Here we first caught blackfish or sea-bass, of small size, but plenty; also snappers, lively fish of the perch family, of a red color, and from a pound to two pounds in weight, which usually take a mullet bait, in the swift current near the surface.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

The black sea-bass, heavier than the fisherman himself and longer than he was tall, were wonderful, and they could hardly believe that such big fish were caught with a rod and line.

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton