grooper

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A form of grouper — Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.

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Meanings

noungrooper (plural groopers)

plural groopers

  1. archaicArchaic form of grouper (the fish).

    The water was clear as crystal, and floating in it were eight hundred groopers, of from five to fifteen pounds weight each.

    1850, The Western Literary Messenger
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APA

grooper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grooper

MLA

“grooper.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grooper. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grooper,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grooper.

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