hāpuku
1. (noun) groper, grouper, Polyprion oxygeneios - a large heavy-bodied fish with a big head and wide mouth found in warm seas. The head is pointed and has a protruding lower jaw. Blue-grey to brown on back, changing abruptly midbody to dirty white, lightening to pale white ventrally. Circumglobal in subtropical and temperate seas of the Southern Hemisphere.
Kei te mōhio katoa rātau ki ngā tauranga tāmure, tauranga tarakihi, tauranga hāpuku me ērā atu ika o te moana (TWK 54:3). / They know all the fishing grounds for snapper, tarakihi, groper and those other fish of the sea.
