sweetlips

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

This entry needs a photograph or drawing for illustration. Please try to find a suitable image on Wikimedia Commons or upload one there yourself!
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
Wikispecies has information on:

Wikispecies

Etymology[edit]

sweet +‎ lips

Noun[edit]

sweetlips (plural sweetlips)

  1. Any member of the genus Plectorhinchus of fish with large fleshy lips.
    • 2007 May 27, Lynn Waddell, “That Grouper on the Menu? Turns Out It Was a Fish Tale”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Kenny Gamble, Dockside Dave’s manager and chef, has often heard the question since a Florida attorney general’s investigation revealed this year that 17 of 24 other restaurants in and around Tampa Bay were passing off cheaper imported fish — tilapia, bream, hake, sutchi, emperor, green weakfish, painted sweetlips — as grouper.

Translations[edit]

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=sweetlips&oldid=78201884"