grouper
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- noun
- /ˈɡruːpər/
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- While snorkeling, I saw a large grouper resting on the sea floor, camouflaged among the rocks.
- grouper and snapper
Back then we would spear grouper, snapper, hogfish.
- Back then we would spear grouper, snapper, hogfish.
- But I mean, when I was a kid, Madeira Beach, John's Pass was a grouper capital of the world.
- So the fish you saw shooting right now this big, the grouper this big.
Examples
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Plus, from April to July, hundreds of chubby groupers come here to breed.
Blog text (3) -
Who's ready to catch some beautiful grouper?
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This is the second little grouper of the day, man.
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It was super clear, there were thousands of fish, we saw a massive grouper, all kinds of cool stuff.
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Your dad caught three groupers.
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You speared one big grouper.
Fiction book (1997) -
Back then we would spear grouper, snapper, hogfish.
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She is just one of the prettiest Crystal River groupers we got this year.
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Expect to see schools of giant groupers, nurse sharks, and Caribbean reef sharks swimming in this natural wonder.
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The water is hazy because groupers are ejecting sperm and eggs in dense clouds.
Synonyms
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A fish that people catch for sport and food along the Atlantic coast of the United States
Surface Forms
Etymology
Grouper comes from the Portuguese word garoupa, a name coastal fishermen used for a large, heavy sea 'fish', and sailors brought this name into English. So grouper today means that big, bottom-living sea bass you see near reefs.