warsaw

name

1. (countable, uncountable)The capital city of Poland; the capital city of Masovian Voivodeship.
2. (countable, metonymically, uncountable)The Polish government.
3. (countable, uncountable)A city, the county seat of Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States.
4. (countable, uncountable)A home rule city, the county seat of Gallatin County, Kentucky, United States.
5. (countable, uncountable)A city, the county seat of Benton County, Missouri, United States.
6. (countable, uncountable)A village, the county seat of Wyoming County, New York, United States.
7. (countable, uncountable)A town, the county seat of Richmond County, Virginia, United States.
8. (countable, uncountable)A habitational surname.

noun

1. Any of several species of grouper, subfamily Epinephelinae

   “BLACK GROUPER Mycteroperca bonaci […] They rank as fair food fish. Fishermen give them a variety of names: Warsaw grouper, gray grouper, jewfish, rockfish.”

   “In the Gulf of Mexico handlines are also an important gear for the offshore subtropical bank fishes, accounting for 12,847,000 pounds of various snappers, 6,928,000 pounds of groupers, and 538,000 pounds of jewfish, warsaw, and grunts.”

2. Any of several species of grouper, subfamily Epinephelinae

   “Plate 165. THE JEW-FISH OR “WARSAW.” Promicrops guasa, Pooey. (P. 412)”

   “Although the red grouper is indeed a large fish compared to most, often weighing forty pounds, it is almost a pigmy compared with a related fish of this family, the jew-fish, guasa, or Warsaw (Promicrops itaira). This fish is yellowish or olivaceous, sprinkled with numerous brown spots.”

   “In the Atlantic (south) we have an allied form, the gansa or warsaw (Promicrops itaira), that attains a weight of over six hundred pounds.”

   “There are two genera called jewfish by the habitues of the reef: the black grouper, when of large size, and the “Warsaw,” Promicrops itaiara. Not a few anglers profess to believe the two fishes identical, the huge Warsaw being the adult black grouper; but the consensus of opinion is against this”

3. Any of several species of grouper, subfamily Epinephelinae

   “Shallow-water grouper include red Epinephelus morio; […] warsaw Epinephelus nigritus; speckled hind Epinephelus hammondhayi; and scamp (after the shallow-water quota is filled).”

   “The Warsaw grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) was listed as a species of concern in 1997. It is a very large fish found on deepwater reefs of the southeastern United States.”

   “The young warsaw has a yellow tail and a dark saddle on the caudal peduncle. The warsaw is distinctive as the only grouper with 10 dorsal spines, the second of which is much longer than the third.”