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grouper^¹

/ˈɡɹuːpə(ɹ)/ UK

Rhymes with -uːpə(ɹ)

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From Portuguese garoupa (“grouper”). Compare garrupa.

noun groupers · grouper · groper · grooper

Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.

grouper^²

/ˈɡɹuːpə(ɹ)/ UK

Rhymes with -uːpə(ɹ)

noun groupers

One who groups things.
dated A groupie. There was also a little roundfaced brunette named Marilyn who told me she used to be a teenie grouper hanging out with a rock'n'roll group called The Wild Flowers but now she was mainly with Bobby Petersen.

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noun fish

Español	mero, cherna
日本語	ハタ hata, 羽太 hata
中文	石斑魚 /石斑鱼 shíbānyú
Português	garoupa
Français	mérou
Deutsch	Zackenbarsch
Italiano	cernia
Ελληνικά	ροφός rofós
Русский	гру́пер grúper, ка́менный о́кунь kámennyj ókunʹ
Tiếng Việt	cá mú
עברית	דַּקָּר

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@misc{grouper_2026,
  title = {grouper},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/grouper},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}