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GROUPER
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Irregular inflected form: grouper
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
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)
