Snook

·noun The Cobia.

II. Snook ·noun The Garfish.

III. Snook ·vi To Lurk; to lie in ambush.

IV. Snook ·noun A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America;

— called also ravallia, and robalo.

snook
n. The name is applied in the Old Worldto various fishes, including the Garfish (q.v.). At theCape ...

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snook
A fish of the family Scombridæ, Thyrsites atun, abundant in Table Bay, whence it is exported, when s...

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