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▪ I. grouper|ˈgruːpə(r)|
Also 7–8 grooper, 8– groper, 9 gruper, garope, garrupa, garoup(h)a.
[ad. Pg. garupa, ? repr. some S. American name.]
1. One of several species of the genus Epinephelus of serranoid fishes, inhabiting West Indian waters and the Mexican gulf and used extensively for food. The chief species are the Red G. (E. morio) and Black G. (E. nigritus). In California, the name is applied also to rock-fish (Sebastichthys).
1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 91 The Rock-Fish is called by Sea-men a Grooper..It is rounder than the Snapper, of a dark brown Colour. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. i. 125 We caught..cavallies, gropers, large breams [at Juan Fernandez]. 1775Romans Florida App. 7 At this place there is vast abundance and variety of fish..particularly groopers. 1805T. Lindley Voy. Brasil (1808) 216 A large fish of the Salmon species (garope), which they sell for the Bahia market. 1829Marryat F. Mildmay xiii, Of these, the best is the red grouper. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xv. (1859) 365 Up came a beautiful black grouper about four pounds weight. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 314 The black and white striped gropers, supposed to be the best fish for the table in the West Indies. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXIX. 231/2 The grouper, or ‘gruper’, or ‘garoupha’.
attrib.1883G. B. Goode Fish. Industr. U.S. 21 On the shoals of the Gulf of Mexico the red snapper and grouper fisheries are yearly increasing in value.
2. Austral. and N.Z. (usu. in the form groper.)
a. A name for several types of fish, esp. a percoid fish of the genus Oligorus.
α1865Morning Star 26 May, A Queensland paper says that a large fish called a grouper was caught off the coast there. It was 7 ft. long, 6 ft. in circumference at its thickest part, and its head weighed 80 lb.
β1878P. Thomson in Trans. N.Z. Inst. XI. 383 The Hapuku, or Groper, was in pretty regular supply. 1898Morris Austral Eng., Groper,..in Queensland, Oligorus terræ-reginæ, Ramsay; in New Zealand, O. gigas..a large marine species. 1908E. J. Banfield Confess. Beachcomber i. iv. 152 Blacks..are..fearful of the monstrous groper (Promicrops itaiara), which lying inert among the coral blocks and boulders of the Barrier Reef, bolts anything. 1947I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxv. 234 ‘What was it?’ Talalulu laughed. ‘Groper,’ she answered. ‘Old man devil of the sea. You would hardly have made one mouthful for him, Gi'Om.’ She was right. For a giant groper is known to have bitten a man in half. 1953Landfall VII. 174 Where they sailed the groper fled. 1957A. W. Parrott Sea Angler's Fishes N.Z. 69 The Groper or Hapuka is well known throughout New Zealand. 1965Austral. Encycl. IV. 396/1 Groper, a name applied in Australia to several distinct types of fish, including the southern gropers (Achoerodus), which are discussed under wrasses; the Queensland groper (Promicrops lanceolatus) and various species of Epinephelus..and the New Zealand groper (Polyprionum oxygeneios).
b. blue groper: a labroid fish, Cossyphus gouldii.
1880Inglis Austral. Cousins 300 The blue-groper still affords pretty fair winter sport. 1883E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes N.S. Wales 24 (Fish. Exhib. Publ.) The blue groper (Cossyphus gouldii), a valuable and delicious fish..often 20 to 30 lbs. in weight. 1962L. Wedlick Fishing in Australia iv. 159 The blue groper is occasionally caught on offshore reefs.
3. local U.S. The triple-tail or flasher, Lobotes surinamensis.
▪ II. grouper
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