Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various sea basses, especially edible species of the genera Epinephelus and Paralabrax.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name of certain serranoid fishes.
  • noun Epinephelus maculosus, an American grouper.
  • noun In Chile, the rockfish, Sebastodes oculatus.

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

  • noun (Zoöl) A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.

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

  • noun Any of various edible fishes of Serranus and related genera, inhabiting the Mediterranean, the coast of California, etc.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish, diminutive of cabra, she-goat; see cabretta.]

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Spanish, prawn.

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  • kelp salmon (an oxymoron - a non traveling peregrine)

    August 31, 2011