grouper

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UK/ˈɡɹuːpə(ɹ)/

noun

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

Less commonScrabble 10

Meanings

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noungrouper (plural groupers or grouper)

plural groupers · alternative groper · alternative archaic grooper

  1. 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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noungrouper (plural groupers)

plural groupers

  1. One who groups things.
  2. datedA groupie.

    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

Origin

grouper · noun

  1. Portuguesegaroupa“grouper”
  2. Englishgrouper

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

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grouper · noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*grewbʰ-
  2. Proto-Germanic*kruppaz
  3. Frankish*krupp
  4. Vulgar Latin*cruppus
  5. Italiangruppo
  6. Frenchgroupe
  7. Italiangruppo
  8. Englishgroup
  9. Englishgrouper

From group + -er.

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Translations

Bulgarian групър
  • групър (grupăr)fish
Catalan mero, anfós
  • merofish
  • anfósfish
  • nerofish
Chinese Cantonese 石斑
  • 石斑 (sek⁶ baan¹)fish
Chinese Mandarin 石斑魚 /石斑鱼
  • 石斑魚 /石斑鱼 (shíbānyú)fish
Czech kanic
  • kanicfish
Finnish meriahven
  • meriahvenfish
French mérou
  • méroufish
German Zackenbarsch
  • Zackenbarschfish
Greek ροφός
  • ροφός (rofós)fish
Hebrew דַּקָּר
  • דַּקָּרfish
Hungarian fűrészessügér
  • fűrészessügérfish
Irish garúpach
  • garúpachfish
Italian cernia
  • cerniafish
Japanese ハタ, 羽太
  • ハタ (hata)fish
  • 羽太 (hata)fish
Latin acernia
  • acerniafish
Malay kerapu
  • kerapufish
Portuguese garoupa
  • garoupafish
Russian гру́пер, ка́менный о́кунь
  • гру́пер (grúper)fish
  • ка́менный о́кунь (kámennyj ókunʹ)fish
Spanish mero, cherna
  • merofish
  • chernafish
Tagalog lubo
  • lubofish
Turkish orfoz
  • orfozfish
Vietnamese cá mú
  • cá múfish
Welsh grwper
  • grwperfish

Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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