grouper

名词 n.
/ˈɡɹuːpə(ɹ)/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.
  2. One who groups things.
  3. A groupie. dated
    — There was also a little roundfaced brunette named Marilyn who told me she used to be a teenie grouper hanging out with a rock'n'roll group called The Wild Flowers but now she was mainly with Bobby Petersen.

词形变化

groupers plural grouper plural groper alternative grooper alternative,archaic groupers plural

词源

词源 1
From Portuguese garoupa (“grouper”). Compare garrupa.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *kruppazder.
Frankish *kruppbor.
Vulgar Latin *cruppus
Italian gruppobor.
French groupebor.

Italian gruppobor.
English group
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English grouper
From group + -er.
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