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Webster 1913 Edition
Grouper
Group′er
,Noun.
[Corrupted fr. Pg.
garupa
crupper. Cf. Garbupa
.] (Zool.)
(a)
One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus
Epinephelus
, of the family Serranidæ
, 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
.]