GROUPER • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Grouper

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/grˈupər/ Listen

Grouper

noun

Flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass.

Usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas.

See images of 'Grouper'

Etymology of 'Grouper'

Share |

"Grouper" Quotes from Famous Books

... sea upon this coast there is great store and diversity of fish, namely jew-fish for which there is a great market at Bahia in Lent: tarpon, mullet, grouper, snook, garfish (called here goolions) gorasses, barramas, coquindas, cavallies, cachoras (or dogfish) conger eels, herring (as I was told) the serrew, the olio-de-boy (I write and spell them just as they were named to me) ...

— A Voyage to New Holland • William Dampier

... many previous days, the water has been beautifully clear. The massive anchor and the links of the chain-cable, which lay along the bottom, were distinctly visible upon the sand, full fifty feet below. Hundreds of fish—the grouper, the red snapper, the noble baracouta, the mullet, and many others, unknown to northern seas—played round the ship, occasionally rising to seize some floating food, that perchance had been thrown overboard. With my waking eye, I beheld the ...

— Journal of an African Cruiser • Horatio Bridge

Words linked to "Grouper" : jewfish, creole-fish, Epinephelus fulvus, coney, Paranthias furcifer, hind, sea bass, saltwater fish, Mycteroperca bonaci