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  • noun Pristipomoides filamentosus, the crimson jobfish.

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Hawaiian

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Examples

  • These days restaurant menus in Hawaii are likely to offer such specialties as grilled opakapaka (Hawaiian snapper) in a macadamia-ginger-basil pesto, tempura of Kona lobster roll or chicken breasts stuffed with spiced mango.

    Hawaiian Flavors 2007

  • Such things as lobster, beef, veggies, cheeses and four types of snapper -- including onaga and opakapaka, are among the foods on the menu to be compared.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • The menu was built around a baked opakapaka, which turned out to be too big to fit in our oven, and the door wouldn't close.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • To fill in the time between the pupus (appetizers) and the pineapple upside-down cake, we barrelled through rich Macadamia nut-crusted opakapaka (pink snapper) and yet even more delicious ahi.

    New Scientist - Online News 2009

  • The menu was built around a baked opakapaka, which turned out to be too big to fit in our oven, and the door wouldn't close.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • Rick says that he thought the opakapaka and the barramundi were two cool fish to use to wake up their pallets.

    Reality TV Calendar Headlines 2009

  • Below, Taylor's husband, Stan, helps Child bone an opakapaka during the meal at the Taylor home.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • Such things as lobster, beef, veggies, cheeses and four types of snapper -- including onaga and opakapaka, are among the foods on the menu to be compared.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • A writer remembers baking opakapaka in the presence of famous chef Julia Child

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • Tommy Bahama), where I had a pricey but terrific opakapaka pink snapper) dinner beneath big floral paintings and slowly circling ceiling fans.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2010

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  • You can say that again!

    June 15, 2022

  • How many opakapakas can an alpaca pack if an alpaca could pack opakapakas?

    June 15, 2022

  • Parker Packer poked a pack of pickled puckered opakapakas.

    June 15, 2022