grouper 🔊 noun UK /ˈɡɹuːpə(ɹ)/
Etymology From Portuguese garoupa (“grouper”). Compare garrupa.
1 Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.
Derived terms 40 terms areolate grouper, argus grouper, black grouper, blackfin grouper , blacktip grouper, blotch grouper, bluespotted grouper), broomtail grouper), calico grouper , comb grouper, convict grouper, dusky grouper , goliath grouper , grouper trooper , Gulf grouper, honeycomb grouper, humpback grouper, kelp grouper, lucky grouper , lyretail grouper, marbled grouper, masked grouper, misty grouper, moustache grouper, Nassau grouper , panther grouper, red grouper, redmouth grouper, sickelfish grouper, slender grouper, snowy grouper, square grouper , star-studded grouper, ten-spine grouper, tiger grouper, Warsaw grouper , white grouper, yellowedge grouper, yellowfin grouper, yellowmouth grouper
grouper 🔊 noun Etymology From group + -er.
There was also a little roundfaced brunette named Marilyn who told me she used to be a teenie grouper hanging out with a rock'n'roll group called The Wild Flowers but now she was mainly with Bobby Petersen.1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 8: