snapper : Idioms & Phrases

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alligator snapper

  • noun large species having three ridges on its back; found in southeastern United States
    Macroclemys temmincki; alligator snapping turtle.
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Alligator snapper, Alligator tortoise, Alligator turtle

  • (Zoöl.), a very large and voracious turtle (Macrochelys lacertina) in habiting the rivers of the southern United States. It sometimes reaches the weight of two hundred pounds. Unlike the common snapping turtle, to which the name is sometimes erroneously applied, it has a scaly head and many small scales beneath the tail. This name is sometimes given to other turtles, as to species of Trionyx.
Webster 1913

Fly snapper

  • (Zoöl.), an American bird (Phainopepla nitens), allied to the chatterers and shrikes. The male is glossy blue-black; the female brownish gray.
Webster 1913

Gnat snapper

  • (Zoöl.), a bird that catches gnats.
Webster 1913

Gray snapper

  • noun found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida
    grey snapper; Lutjanus griseus; gray snapper.
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  • (Zoöl.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See Snapper.
Webster 1913

grey snapper

  • noun found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida
    grey snapper; Lutjanus griseus; gray snapper.
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hog snapper

  • noun large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout
    Lachnolaimus maximus; hogfish.
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mangrove snapper

  • noun found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida
    grey snapper; Lutjanus griseus; gray snapper.
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mutton snapper

  • noun similar to and often marketed as `red snapper';
    Lutjanus analis; muttonfish.
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Red snapper

  • noun highly esteemed reddish lean flesh of snapper from Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico
  • noun an esteemed food fish with pinkish red head and body; common in the Atlantic coastal waters of North America and the Gulf of Mexico
    Lutjanus blackfordi.
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  • (Zoöl.), a large fish (Lutlanus aya ∨ Blackfordii) abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and about the Florida reefs.
Webster 1913

wit-snapper

Wit"-snap`per noun
Definitions
  1. One who affects repartee; a wit-cracker. Obs. Shak.
Webster 1913

yellowtail snapper

  • noun superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail
    yellowtail; Ocyurus chrysurus.
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