Meanings
grouper1
plural groupers · alternative groper · alternative archaic grooper
- Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.
grouper2
plural groupers
- One who groups things.
- 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
- Portuguesegaroupa“grouper”
- Englishgrouper
From Portuguese garoupa (“grouper”). Compare garrupa.
More words from Portuguese
Full word history & related roots →grouper · noun
- Proto-Indo-European*grewbʰ-
- Proto-Germanic*kruppaz
- Frankish*krupp
- Vulgar Latin*cruppus
- Italiangruppo
- Frenchgroupe
- Italiangruppo
- Englishgroup
- Englishgrouper
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
Rhymes with grouper
Anagrams
Cite this entry
grouper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grouper
“grouper.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grouper. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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