grou·per (gr  p r)n. pl. grouper or grou·pers Any of various often large food and game fishes of the genera Epinephelus, Mycteroperca, and related genera, which inhabit warm seas. [Portuguese garupa.] |
grouper [ˈgruːpə]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a variant of groper
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| Noun | 1. |  grouper - flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bassgrouper - usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas saltwater fish - flesh of fish from the sea used as food |
| 2. | grouper - usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas sea bass - any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin coney, Epinephelus fulvus - black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins hind - any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers creole-fish, Paranthias furcifer - deep-sea fish of tropical Atlantic Mycteroperca bonaci, jewfish - large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales grouper - flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass |
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