grooper

English

Noun

grooper (plural groopers)

Archaic form of grouper. (the fish)
- 1850, The Western Literary Messenger:
  The water was clear as crystal, and floating in it were eight hundred groopers, of from five to fifteen pounds weight each.

References

“grooper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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