grouper Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass
  2. noun usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas

WordNet

Group"er noun
Etymology
Corrupted fr. Pg. garupa crupper. Cf. Garbupa.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) (a) One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, 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. (b) The tripletail (Lobotes). (c) In California, the name is often applied to the rockfishes. Written also groper, gruper, and trooper.

Webster 1913