Grouper

//ˈɡɹuːpə(ɹ)// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.
  2. 2
    One who groups things.
  3. 3
    usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas wordnet
  4. 4
    A groupie. dated

    "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."

  5. 5
    flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass wordnet

Synonyms

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fish

Example

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"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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Portuguese garoupa (“grouper”). Compare garrupa.

Etymology 2

From group + -er.

Related phrases

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