GROUPER (grouper)

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Irregular inflected form: grouper   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does grouper mean? 

• GROUPER (noun)
  The noun GROUPER has 2 senses:

1. flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass

2. usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas

  Familiarity information: GROUPER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("grouper" is a kind of...):

saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Holonyms ("grouper" is a part of...):

grouper (usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("grouper" is a kind of...):

sea bass (any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin)

Meronyms (parts of "grouper"):

grouper (flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grouper"):

coney; Epinephelus fulvus (black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins)

hind (any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers)

creole-fish; Paranthias furcifer (deep-sea fish of tropical Atlantic)

jewfish; Mycteroperca bonaci (large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales)

 Context examples 

The offshore reefs provide habitat and feeding grounds for large numbers of fish, including top predators such as sharks and groupers.

(Microbes reflect the health of coral reefs, National Science Foundation)

Threatened social interest species include a number of stingless bees (known locally as uruçu, mandaçaia, and jandaíra), swamp ghost crabs, blue land crabs, a freshwater shrimp locally known as pitu, mangrove root crabs, catfish, yellowmouth groupers, jewfish, hammerhead sharks, among others.

(Over 300 animal species threatened in Bahia, Agência Brasil)