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The angle of the jaw falls below the eye
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smallmouth
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a variety of black bass; the angle of the jaw falls below the eye [syn: smallmouth bass , smallmouthed bass , smallmouth black bass , smallmouthed black bass , Micropterus dolomieu ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1880, short for small-mouth (black) bass (1878); from small (adj.) + mouth (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. A variety of bass (fish) having a small mouth n. A variety of bass (fish) having a small mouth
Usage examples of smallmouth.
Rusty shrugged, then squinted in the bright Texas sunlight and studied what was supposed to be Smallmouth Lake.
Full moon, cloudless sky all spangled with stars, and Smallmouth the horror, Smallmouth the lake, even Smallmouth the town, had vanished.
Smallmouth the horror, Smallmouth the lake, even Smallmouth the town, had vanished.
He held up a mess of smallmouth bass, as though he was offering her the crowns of dead kings.
He taught me to look carefully along the bank for a still-water run where trout and smallmouth bass might be found cooling beneath the undercut banks.
Where I looked and saw the bright rock and moved on, he would continue looking, waiting to see the trout or smallmouth bass that lay beside the rock, the force that caused the rock to move.
The mounted smallmouth bass still hung over the mantel, dust heavy on its glass eyes.
Small schools of smallmouth bass called rockfish in these parts lazed there along with other fish.
Elysia caught and cooked a smallmouth bass while Darien took down the sails for what was probably the last time.
I went drift fishing with friends for smallmouth black bass in the St.
Truth be known, a smallmouth taking the bait would screw up a fine nap.
A day for looking at a ball game or walking along with a girl and a jug of apple wine or casting for a smallmouth black bass where an elm tree hung out over the Ipswich River.
Once, long ago, I went drift fishing with friends for smallmouth black bass in the St.
He knew the river, embraced it like a lover, pointing at a turtle sunning on a log, a muskrat diving from the bank, swimming into its lodge, the swirl of a smallmouth bass rising for a cricket caught in a ripple behind a sunken stone.
He'd been trying to get interested in the wedgehead jigs in the Bass Pro Shops catalog, since according to the fine print below the picture they were supposed to be dynamite for walleyes and both largemouth and smallmouth bass, none of which he'd ever had any luck with.