Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A grouper or grooper: applied to several different fishes, as scorpænids and serranids, particularly to Sebastichthys nebulosus and S. atrovirens of the California coast.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See rockfish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; a rockfish.

Etymologies

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Probably from Portuguese garupa crupper. Compare grouper the fish.

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