English-Thai Dictionary
snapper
N ปลา ทะเล ขนาดใหญ่ ใน ตระกูล Lutjanidae
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
SNAPPER
n.One that snaps.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
SNAPPER
SNAPPER Snap "per, n.
1. One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.
4. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
5. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A snap beetle.
New American Oxford Dictionary
snapper
snap per |ˈsnapər ˈsnæpər | ▶noun 1 a marine fish that is typically reddish and is valued as food. [● a fish of a widespread tropical family (Lutjanidae, the snapper family ) that snaps its toothed jaws. See also red snapper . ] 2 another term for snapping turtle. 3 chiefly Brit. a paper cracker, or the part of a cracker that makes a bang. 4 Brit. informal a photographer.
Oxford Dictionary
snapper
snap |per |ˈsnapə | ▶noun 1 a marine fish that is typically reddish and is valued as food, in particular: ● a fish of a widespread tropical family (Lutjanidae, the snapper family ), which snaps its toothed jaws. See also red snapper ● a fish of Australasian coastal waters (Chrysophrys auratus, family Sparidae ). 2 another term for snapping turtle. 3 informal a photographer. 4 N. Amer. a paper cracker, or the part of a cracker that makes a bang. 5 American Football a centre player.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
snapper
snap per /snǽpə r /名詞 C 1 パチッと鳴るもの ; がみがみ言う人 .2 ＝snapping turtle .3 〘魚 〙フエダイ 〘暖海産のタイの一種 〙.
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