warsaw
See also: Warsaw
English
editEtymology
editProbably a corruption of Spanish guasa, possibly from an Amerind language.
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Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɔː
Noun
editwarsaw (plural warsaws)
- A fish, the black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus).
- The jewfish or guasa (Epinephelus itajara).
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “warsaw”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)