Dictionary entry

Mero

Webster's Dictionary 1913

‖Me″ro (?), n. [Sp.; cf. Pg. mero.] Any of several large groupers of warm seas, esp. the guasa (Epinephelus guaza), the red grouper (E. morio), the black grouper (E. nigritas), distinguished as Me″ro de lo al″to (�), and a species called also rock hind, distinguished as Me″ro ca‐brol″la (�).