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What (who) is grouper - definition

SUBFAMILY OF FISHES
Groupers; Groper; Garoupa; Epinephelinae; Hammour; Gropers; Garupa; Soapfish
  • ''Gulai kerapu'', a grouper-based [[Padang food]]
  • A [[monogenea]]n parasitic on the gill of a grouper

grouper         
(chiefly Austral./NZ also groper)
¦ noun a large heavy-bodied fish of the sea bass family, found in warm seas. [Epinephelus, Mycteroperca, and other genera: many species.]
Origin
C17: from Port. garoupa, prob. from a local term in South America.
Grouper         
·noun The tripletail (Lobotes).
II. Grouper ·noun In California, the name is often applied to the rockfishes.
III. Grouper ·noun One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidae, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (E. morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (E. nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
USS Grouper         
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  • ''Grouper'' after conversion to a research submarine.
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GATO-CLASS SUBMARINE (1941 TO 1968)
USS Grouper (AGSS-214); USS Grouper (SSK-214); SS-214; USS Grouper (SS-214)
USS Grouper (SS/SSK/AGSS-214), a Gato-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grouper.

Wikipedia

Grouper

Groupers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes.

Not all serranids are called "groupers"; the family also includes the sea basses. The common name "grouper" is usually given to fish in one of two large genera: Epinephelus and Mycteroperca. In addition, the species classified in the small genera Anyperidon, Cromileptes, Dermatolepis, Graciela, Saloptia, and Triso are also called "groupers." Fish in the genus Plectropomus are referred to as "coral groupers." These genera are all classified in the subfamily Epiphelinae. However, some of the hamlets (genus Alphestes), the hinds (genus Cephalopholis), the lyretails (genus Variola), and some other small genera (Gonioplectrus, Niphon, Paranthias) are also in this subfamily, and occasional species in other serranid genera have common names involving the word "grouper." Nonetheless, the word "grouper" on its own is usually taken as meaning the subfamily Epinephelinae.

Examples of use of grouper
1. GONE GROUPER FISHIN‘÷ Longliners that ply the Gulf of Mexico for shark, snapper, and red grouper line a dock.
2. He said federal officials went too far when they outlawed all grouper fishing to protect one species, the red grouper. –– From News Services
3. "A potential grouper haven," a county report opined.
4. Still, fish that are not grouper can slip through.
5. For 22 of the 24 fish samples, Price determined the species –– grouper or not –– by matching '' percent of the sample DNA to grouper DNA.