yellowfin grouper

noun

: a medium-sized grouper (Mycteroperca venenosa) of the tropical western Atlantic that is olive to grayish or sometimes bright scarlet above, mottled or spotted with red or black along the sides, and yellow or orange at the tips of the pectoral fins

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