| snapper | (n) flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas |
| snapper | (n) Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots, Syn. Chrysophrys auratus |
| snapper | (n) any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters |
| Snapper | n. ☞ 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. See Rosefish. [ 1913 Webster ] |