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Grouper   Listen
noun
Grouper  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidae, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (Epinephelus morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (Epinephelus nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
(b)
The tripletail (Lobotes).
(c)
In California, the name is often applied to the rockfishes. (Written also groper, gruper, and trooper)






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"Grouper" Quotes from Famous Books



... just because there were so many of them in this small pool? I hardly think a grouper would attack anything as large as a dog out in the open sea. They're much the same sort of fish as ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler



Words linked to "Grouper" :   coney, Mycteroperca bonaci, Epinephelus fulvus, sea bass



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