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  • noun Plural form of grouper.

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Examples

  • The feeding of the fish was a matter of more interest, and it was striking to observe that the angel-fish and groupers were able to recognize their respective summons to food, for when the keeper tapped one portion of the bridge it gave a sharp cracking sound to which the angel-fish came flocking, while in calling the groupers and other fish, he hit another portion of the bridge, which reverberated in a different tone, and the larger fish dashed through the water to the appointed places.

    The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

  • “Large predatory fish such as groupers and sharks are vitally important in marine food webs,” Stallings said.

    Sobering’ Decline Of Caribbean’s Big Fish | Impact Lab 2009

  • "At mesophotic depths in Puerto Rico, scientists are seeing fish species that were once common inhabitants of shallow reefs such as groupers, snappers and reef sharks," said Kimberly

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Snorkellers and divers are almost guaranteed to see stingrays, schooling jack and the more common reef tropicals such as groupers, angelfish, parrot fish and barracuda.

    unknown title 2009

  • Snorkellers and divers are almost guaranteed to see stingrays, schooling jack and the more common reef tropicals such as groupers, angelfish, parrot fish and barracuda.

    unknown title 2009

  • Other areas host fish from around the world as well as giant groupers, turtles and sharks.

    There's a lot to see and do in Veracruz, Mexico 2009

  • Other areas host fish from around the world as well as giant groupers, turtles and sharks.

    There's a lot to see and do in Veracruz, Mexico 2009

  • Gardam's popularity in the United States is late-coming but wildly booming, with singularly devoted readers and curious book groupers alike taking up her books, starting with Old Filth, her novel about Sir Edward Feathers, a retired lawyer coming to terms with his past, and continuing on with the follow-up novel The Man in the Wooden Hat, which further illustrates the story of Eddy, but this time from his wife's perspective.

    Nina Sankovitch: God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam: Looking for Order in a Child's Universe Nina Sankovitch 2010

  • Goliath groupers are critically endangered True Goliath grouperare listed on theIUCN red listas critically endangered and are extinct throughout much of their former range across the Greater Caribbean.

    John F. Bruno: Fact Checking the 60 Minutes Segment on Gardens of the Queen John F. Bruno 2011

  • Goliath groupers are critically endangered True Goliath grouperare listed on theIUCN red listas critically endangered and are extinct throughout much of their former range across the Greater Caribbean.

    John F. Bruno: Fact Checking the 60 Minutes Segment on Gardens of the Queen John F. Bruno 2011

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