Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun red_snapper

2 senses of red snapper

Sense 1
red snapper -- (highly esteemed reddish lean flesh of snapper from Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico)
       => snapper -- (flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas)

Sense 2
red snapper, Lutjanus blackfordi -- (an esteemed food fish with pinkish red head and body; common in the Atlantic coastal waters of North America and the Gulf of Mexico)
       => snapper -- (any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters)