red snapper

Questions about red snapper

What does red snapper mean?

red snapper means "highly esteemed reddish lean flesh of snapper from Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for red snapper?

Close synonyms include Lutjanus blackfordi. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is red snapper a common word?

red snapper is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.