graysby

graysby
/grayz"bee/, n., pl. graysbies.
a serranid fish, Epinephelus cruentatus, inhabiting warm waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, having a reddish-gray body marked with vermilion spots.
[orig. uncert.]

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      species of sea bass (q.v.).

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