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GROUPER
grouper
(noun) usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas
grouper
(noun) flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
grouper (plural groupers or grouper)
Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.
Etymology 2
Noun
grouper (plural groupers)
One who groups things.
Anagrams
• grupero, regroup
Source: Wiktionary
Group"er, n. Etym: [Corrupted fr. Pg. garupa crupper. Cf. Garbupa.] (Zoöl.) (a) One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (E. morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (E. 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.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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