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snapper
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun snapper has 6 senses
- snapper(n = noun.person) center - (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the center fumbled the handoff" is a kind of lineman
- snapper(n = noun.food) Array - flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas; Array is a part of snapper, chrysophrys auratus, snapper
- snapper(n = noun.artifact) cracker, cracker bonbon - a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends; Array is a kind of favor, favour, party favor, party favour
- snapper(n = noun.animal) chrysophrys auratus - Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots; Array is a kind of sparid, sparid fish
- snapper(n = noun.animal) Array - any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters; Array is a kind of food fish, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
- snapper(n = noun.animal) chelydra serpentina, common snapping turtle - large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite; Array is a kind of snapping turtle
Derived form verb snap9
is a kind of saltwater fish
has particulars: red snapper
Derived form verb snap10
is a member of chrysophrys, genus chrysophrys
has parts: snapper
is a member of family lutjanidae, lutjanidae
has particulars: lutjanus blackfordi, red snapper, gray snapper, grey snapper, lutjanus griseus, mangrove snapper, lutjanus analis, mutton snapper, muttonfish, lutjanus apodus, schoolmaster, ocyurus chrysurus, yellowtail, yellowtail snapper
has parts: snapper
is a member of chelydra, genus chelydra
CIDE DICTIONARY
snapper, n.
- One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip. [1913 Webster]
- Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus
Lutjanus , abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America. [1913 Webster]" The red snapper (Lutjanus aya syn.Lutjanus Blackfordi ) and the gray, or mangrove, snapper (Lutjanus griseus ) are large and abundant species. The name is loosely applied to various other fishes, as the bluefish, the rosefish, the red grouper, etc. SeeRosefish ." [1913 Webster] - A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper. [1913 Webster]
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle. [1913 Webster]
- A snap beetle. [1913 Webster]
- A device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- A string bean. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
snapper, n.
1 a person or thing that snaps.
2 any of several fish of the family Lutjanidae, used as food.
3 a snapping turtle.
4 US a cracker (as a toy).
1 a person or thing that snaps.
2 any of several fish of the family Lutjanidae, used as food.
3 a snapping turtle.
4 US a cracker (as a toy).
THESAURUS
snapper
Klaxon, blunder, boiler factory, boiler room, bull-roarer, bumble, catcall, cherry bomb, clack, clacker, clapper, cracker, cricket, firecracker, horn, lurch, noisemaker, rattle, rattlebox, siren, steam whistle, ticktack, whistle, whizgig, whizzer
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