Dictionary entry

Robalo

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Rob″a‐lo (?), n. [Sp. róbalo.] 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 Rob′a‐li″to (�).