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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rosefish  \Rose"fish`\,  n.  (Zo["o]l.) 
  A  large  marine  scorp[ae]noid  food  fish  ({Sebastes  marinus}) 
  found  on  the  northern  coasts  of  Europe  and  America.  called 
  also  {red  perch},  {hemdurgan},  {Norway  haddok},  and  also 
  erroneously,  {snapper},  {bream},  and  {bergylt}. 
 
  Note:  When  full  grown  it  is  usually  bright  rose-red  or 
  orange-red;  the  young  are  usually  mottled  with  red  and 
  ducky  brown. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Snapper  \Snap"per\,  n. 
  1.  (Teleg.)  A  device  with  a  flexible  metal  tongue  for 
  producing  clicks  like  those  of  the  sounder. 
 
  2.  A  string  bean.  [Colloq.,  U.  S.] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Snapper  \Snap"per\,  n. 
  1.  One  who  or  that  which  snaps;  as  a  snapper  up  of 
  trifles;  the  snapper  of  a  whip. 
 
  2.  (Zo["o]l.)  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. 
 
  Note:  The  red  snapper  ({Lutjanus  aya,  or  Blackfordi})  and  the 
  gray,  or  mangrove,  snapper  ({L.  griseus})  are  large  and 
  abundant  species.  The  name  is  loosely  applied  to 
  various  other  fishes,  as  the  bluefish,  the  rosefish, 
  the  red  grouper,  etc  See  {Rosefish}. 
 
  3.  (Zo["o]l.)  A  snapping  turtle;  as  the  alligator  snapper. 
 
  4.  (Zo["o]l.)  The  green  woodpecker,  or  yaffle. 
 
  5.  (Zo["o]l.)  A  snap  beetle. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  snapper 
  n  1:  flesh  of  any  of  various  important  food  fishes  of  warm  seas 
  2:  a  party  favor  consisting  of  a  paper  roll  (usually  containing 
  candy  or  a  small  favor)  that  pops  when  pulled  at  both  ends 
  [syn:  {cracker},  {cracker  bonbon}] 
  3:  Australian  food  fish  having  a  pinkish  body  with  blue  spots 
  [syn:  {Chrysophrys  auratus}] 
  4:  any  of  several  large  sharp-toothed  marine  food  and  sport 
  fishes  of  the  family  Lutjanidae  of  mainly  tropical  coastal 
  waters 
  5:  large-headed  turtle  with  powerful  hooked  jaws  found  in  or 
  near  water;  prone  to  bite  [syn:  {common  snapping  turtle}, 
  {Chelydra  serpentina}]




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