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ies of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (E. morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (E. nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

A large grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci) of Florida and the West Indies, valuable as a food fish; -- called also aguaji and, in Florida, black grouper.

See Grouper.

The black grouper of Florida and Texas.

Any of several large groupers of warm seas, esp. the guasa (Epinephelus guaza), the red grouper (E. morio), the black grouper (E. nigritas), distinguished as Me"ro de lo al"to, and a species called also rock hind, distinguished as Me"ro ca*brol"la.

Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.

cales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher.

The black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of the United States.