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Definition of Robalo
1. Noun. A kind of percoid fish.
Group relationships: Centropomidae, Family Centropomidae
Specialized synonyms: Snook
Definition of Robalo
1. n. Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracidæ, esp. the largest species (Oxylabrax, syn. Centropomus, undecimalis), a valuable food fish called also snook, the smaller species being called
Definition of Robalo
1. a marine food fish [n -LOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Robalo
Literary usage of Robalo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Log of a Sea Angler: Sport and Adventures in Many Seas with Spear and Rod by Charles Frederick Holder (1906)
"I MET the robalo first in the old market along the levee at New Orleans, and
thought it a pike- perch, its trim appearance, powerful tail, and large mouth ..."
2. The Log of a Sea Angler: Sport and Adventures in Many Seas with Spear and Rod by Charles Frederick Holder (1906)
"I MET the robalo first in the old market along the levee at New Orleans, and
thought it a pike- perch, its trim appearance, powerful tail, and large mouth ..."
3. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"Centropomus viridis, the Pacific robalo, occurs from Panama northward to Lower
... C. undecimalis, the common robalo or snook, is the best-known species of ..."
4. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1906)
"The only vulgar name that I have been able to find for it is ' robalo,' and this
name ... robalo' is the Spanish name for the European bass, which is nearly ..."
5. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1906)
"The only vulgar name that I have been able to find for it is ' robalo,' and this
name ... robalo' is the Spanish name for the European bass, which is nearly ..."
6. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1906)
"The only vulgar name that I have been able to find for it is ' robalo,' and this
... robalo ' is the Spanish name for the European bass, which is nearly ..."
7. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"The robalo attains the length of about three feet, and is exceedingly strong,
... I once heard a darky, who had never before seen a robalo, say of a twenty- ..."
8. Magellan's Voyage Around the Worldby Antonio Pigafetta by Antonio Pigafetta (1906)
"Bass—European, called robalo, i, 235; allied to striped bass, 235. Bonito—size,
i, 73; ... robalo—confusion in name, i, 235; see also above Bass, ..."
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