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hāpuka

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.

See also hāpuku

Synonyms: kawerei, hāpuku, whāpuku

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