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NOUN (1)

1. large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Snook \Snook\ (sn[=oo]k), v. i. [Prov. E. snook to search out, to follow by the scent; cf. Sw. snoka to lurk, LG. sn["o]ggen, snuckern, sn["o]kern, to snuffle, to smell about, to search for.] To lurk; to lie in ambush. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Snook \Snook\, n. [D. snoek.] (Zool.) (a) A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also ravallia, and robalo. (b) The cobia. (c) The garfish. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Robalo \Rob"a*lo\, n. [Sp. r['o]balo.] Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracidae, esp. the largest species (Oxylabrax undecimalis, syn. Centropomus undecimalis), a valuable food fish called also snook, the smaller species being called
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

snook n 1: large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike