sweetlips en · NOUN
Etymology
From sweet + lips.
Meanings
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Any member of the genus Plectorhinchus of fish with large fleshy lips.
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.
2007 May 27, Lynn Waddell, “That Grouper on the Menu? Turns Out It Was a Fish Tale”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sweetlips | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (1)
tl gulyabaw (any member of the genus Plectorhinchus of fish with large fleshy lips)