GROUPER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: grouper

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)

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)